Valve followers already imagine Half-Life 3 is in lively improvement, and now it’s rumoured {that a} huge reveal is simply hours away.
While a handful of video games are set to make an look at The Game Awards 2024 tonight, like Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country, there’s to this point nothing significantly mind-shattering on the docket.
There have been surprisingly few rumours of any main reveals and but insider stories have overvalued this yr’s occasion as one to observe, with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier promising two bulletins that’ll have viewers crying ‘Holy s***.’
It’s tough to inform what he might be referring to, however one new hearsay that’s since made the rounds, and one which would definitely match the standards, is that Valve will lastly announce Half-Life 3 through the occasion.
This doesn’t come from any of the standard rumourmongers, however reasonably one Nima Zeighami, a former Apple worker who at the moment serves as vp of product at tech firm Infinite Reality.
‘The hearsay I heard, and I’m not kidding right here, is that [Valve president Gabe Newell] will likely be there to announce Half-Life 3,’ Zeighami wrote on X in response to Schreier’s feedback about The Game Awards.
Amusingly, Zeighami admits he doesn’t imagine it himself, however he should do to a point, if he felt snug making such a declare in public. He’s also clarified that he was instructed this in-person by somebody ‘actually well-connected within the video games trade.’
Ever since Valve launched Half-Life: Alyx in 2020, there was renewed optimism that Half-Life 3 would truly come to move. In reality, it’s believed Valve is actively engaged on the sequel proper now, because of datamined data present in different Valve video games.
Tyler McVicker, a Valve insider who’s repeatedly insisted Half-Life 3 is in improvement, has chimed in to say he’s not personally heard of any such announcement.
However, in his latest video, he posits that Valve does no less than owe The Game Awards organiser Geoff Keighley one thing, because it initially meant to point out off Half-Life: Alyx on the 2019 Game Awards, however pulled out mere hours before the event started (one thing that usually occurs with such occasions, when you ever get upset at rumours not panning out).
Opinions from followers are unsurprisingly in every single place. Over on Reddit, some are daring to imagine a Half-Life 3 reveal will occur tonight, whereas others are much more sceptical. One consumer, Audens_, calls it ‘the fakest leak,’ whereas RJE808 thinks such an announcement might function the massive nearer to the present.
On a associated be aware, fans have also noticed that the devoted web site for Valve’s SteamVR software program has come again on-line after being clean for months. And for some cause, the web site title briefly learn ‘Half-Life.’
This added additional gas to the Half-Life 3 fireplace, however some assume this was merely a mistake that has since been corrected. According to Reddit user Left4pillz, the official Half-Life web site had its title modified to ‘SteamVR,’ suggesting all that occurred is somebody at Valve unintentionally swapped the 2 web sites’ names.
We’ll discover out for positive tonight, with The Game Awards attributable to begin at 1am and finish round 4am GMT.
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