Half-Life 3 rumor and hypothesis is in overdrive after the voice actor behind G-Man issued a cryptic tweet teasing some kind of information for 2025.
In full G-Man mode, Mike Shapiro tweeted a narrated video wherein he marked the top of 2024 by teasing “sudden surprises” for this yr, alongside the tags #Valve, #Halflife, #GMan, and #2025.
“Another yr already,” Shapiro stated within the tweet. “Good to see and listen to from some a lot of you. May the following quarter century ship as many sudden surprises, hmm, as did the millennium’s first. Then once more time is fluid like music. See you within the new yr!”
#Valve #Halflife #GMan #2025 pic.twitter.com/mdT5hlxKJT
— Mike Shapiro (@mikeshapiroland) December 31, 2024
That’s fairly obscure, however as many followers have identified, that is Shapiro’s first non-reply tweet since he congratulated Valve on the success of VR unique Half-Life: Alyx again in December 2020. A Shapiro tweet, then, is a uncommon factor certainly. But does this newest one imply something?
Half-Life 2 just lately turned 20 years outdated, and nonetheless there’s no official Half-Life 3 announcement from Valve regardless of the story ending on a cliffhanger with 2007’s Episode 2. In 2020, a making-of for Half-Life: Alyx revealed a swathe of video games developed and shelved by Valve between the discharge of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Valve’s newest VR sport. That listing included particulars on a model of Half-Life 3 that was in improvement for round a yr.
Geoff Keighley’s The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx revealed that not less than 5 Half-Life video games had been canceled between Episode 2 and Alyx, together with a lot of different tasks — probably the most notable of which was referred to inside Valve as Half-Life 3.
In November, to mark Half-Life 2’s twentieth anniversary, Valve opened up about its improvement in a documentary that exposed never-before-seen work-in-progress footage, a brand-new Ice Gun, and a raft of latest idea artwork. You can see the gameplay phase from the documentary within the video beneath.
Among the main points proven within the video, Episode 3 would have been set within the Arctic, and it will have centered on Alyx as a companion character. Aside from the Ice Gun, the footage reveals a blob-like enemy that would break up into a number of elements. According to the documentary, the workforce had accomplished a “assortment of playable ranges in no explicit order” and anticipated to have the ability to launch the sport inside a yr or two.
Valve has lots on its plate already, after all, together with ongoing help of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Steam itself, the Steam Deck, and new sport Deadlock. Could it even be engaged on Half-Life 3 alongside all these different tasks?
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