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Valve Hints at Possible Half Life 3/Episode 3?

Consider the following: Through carefully placed hints and tips, as well as some clever marketing and masking on their part, Valve teases that Episode 3 or possibly Half Life 3 may be upcoming. Through some clever sleuthing, denizens of the internet have drawn a link between the hazy “hacked” Portal 2 information and drawn a handful...

NinjaCameraman4766d ago

Words cannot describe how awesome I hope Ep3 will be

Eamon4766d ago (Edited 4766d ago )

It's awesomness will probably overwhelem every living creature..

starchild4766d ago

Oh god I hope it is true. I love Half Life and it feels like it has been forever since Episode 2. I will be a very happy person the day they announce Half Life 3 or Episode 3.

superadvanced4766d ago

i bet they will try to further milk the ancient source engine.

Moragami4766d ago

Source is a highly modifiable engine. Today's source engine is very different from it's original version. I would imagine they've got something pretty special up their sleeves, hell after a wait like this, it better peel wallpaper.

badz1494766d ago

I'm not disagreeing with you but Source Engine is OLD! it's one thing to let more people play your games in its full glory like every other Source's games this gen but even those games look OLD at highest setting! I and I think many fans are hoping Valve will try to push hardware and graphical benchmark like they did before and come out with a new engine already!

Pixel_Pusher4766d ago (Edited 4766d ago )

Awesome I didn't get a chance to play ep.2 back in the day.

I_find_it_funny4766d ago

I didnt play Ep2 for some weird reason it was freezing at loading screens (loading menus, saves, quick saves) at random. The game itself runned smootly on my laptop

HardCover4765d ago

Yeah Source should be replaced in my opinion. I mean, WoW runs on a modified Warcraft 3 engine (WoW's engine was made over 10 years ago), and that game still does well. Doesn't mean WoW 2 should still use it though....

Give HL3 it's own engine. A legendary successor deserves a legendary upgrade.

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Solid_Snake-4766d ago

i dont think our poor little human bodies could handle confirmed news of half life 3.

please valve could you warn me of a new announcment so i can wrap my self up in cling film just incase i blow up when hearing the news so my organs dont splash on the wall.

Eamon4766d ago

ROFLMAO. Bubbles for the humour.

jy_mrnd4766d ago

First day buy can't wait any longer!

saladthieves4766d ago

Make it happen Valve, MAKE.IT.HAPPEN.NAO!

DigitalHorror814766d ago

YOU SAID IT! And I'll quote Lonely Island...

"We're going to need a clean-up, on Aisle 3."

Jezuz4766d ago

I just played the orginal half life multiplayer with my friends. Ah the memories

the_best_player4765d ago

Also Half Life 2 Deathmatch is free, the online is crazy :)

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ksense4766d ago

Honestly they really need to announce it at E3 before my head explodes in frustration. even though I am scared because they said they will concentrate on dota2 after portal.

malamdra4766d ago

mark my words: this will be a PS3/PC exclusive

Eyeco4766d ago

um no it will most likely be released across all platforms (pc/360/ps3/mac)

kesvalk4766d ago

and away with your second bubble!

badz1494766d ago

that's very likely to happen. but I think we can expect cross-platform play between PSN-Steam with future Valve's titles as the foundation is there already after Portal 2.

DigitalHorror814766d ago

With the amount of money and time invested, this game needs to reach as many people as possible.

HardCover4765d ago

I'm not gonna mark them down, but I am going to disagree with them.

Steam compatibility will be PS3/PC exclusive. The game won't be.

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ProjectVulcan4766d ago

Its been FOUR bloody years since Episode 2 this October. :-(

However just recently i started Half Life 2 again with the latest fakefactory mod and it looks wonderful. Absolutely dying to play Episode 3 and finish this story arc. The amount of times Vavle have disappointed and frustrated me with announcements not relating to this

DeadlyFire4766d ago

I doubt after 4 years it will be called Episode 3. That is enough time to construct an entire new game engine and be half complete with development of a game on Valve's timeclock. Which itself is typically slow.

I bet they are aiming to tie Portal 2 story into Half-Life 3 blended with what was Episode 3 + Another story part into well Half-Life 3. Its been to long for just an episode to be released. I believe very strongly that Valve is planning on teasing us at E3 with something. Even if its just a crowbar with a 3 mark on it or something.

Lamarthedancer4766d ago (Edited 4766d ago )

My opinion...I think they'll show something in Portal 2 which will get us excited untill E3 and thats when they'll show us something or announce it.

Even if the trailer is just a black screen with "Half life 3/Episode 3...coming soon" then Alyx saying "Gordon" in her dramatic voice" that would be good enough for me :)

ct034766d ago

The ARG has contained numerous hints at the Borealis, but they may all be Portal related because Aperture Science has the Borealis.

http://valvearg.com/wiki/Re...

kesvalk4766d ago (Edited 4766d ago )

what if you get to go to the borealis as chell, and find gordon/alyx there?

that would blow my mind in tiny little pieces of joy...

no, really, that would kill me...

nskrishna24766d ago

Kesvalk
@_@
The human brain cannot take such kind of spoilers...if that happens I'll be a valve fan till my last breathe....oh wait...i already am a huge fan..:P

malamdra4766d ago

that would cause my PC screen to be soled with a white fluid

nskrishna24766d ago

That is enough to kill me with happiness...
I'll return as a zombie to play the game

zeal0us4766d ago

hint wth they better be making one dammit, getting kinda ridiculous

jbiz3204766d ago (Edited 4766d ago )

once they get rid of marketing for portal 2 HOPEFULLY we'll hear more.

FOCUS on a sick solid single player.. Im hoping they dont bring multiplayer into this.

kesvalk4766d ago

why the 4 disagrees, HL2 really have multiplayer...

nskrishna24766d ago

Half Life 2 death match is fun..:)
And they can always release it later..and knowing valve they'll allow a free download for the deathmatch part of the game

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5 Ambitious Games That Shouldn't Have Been Canceled

Sometimes even promising titles never see the light of day. These are five of the most ambitious games that shouldn't have been canceled.

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GaboonViper286d ago

Silent Hills cancellation was a travesty.

mrbearbear285d ago

I still wonder to this day if it was a reboot, or sequel.

cammers1995285d ago

Lol. The tags made it so I didn't have to visit your website.

goldwyncq285d ago

Kojima wouldn't have started his own studio if Silent Hills didn't get cancelled so even if it stung at first, I'm fine with it.

chobit_A5HL3Y285d ago

i remember being so excited for patriots for years, only to have them release that siege trash. i hate how multiplayer games, pvp in particular, have ruined so many potentially good games.

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15 Years Ago This Month, Valve Announced Half-Life 2: Episode 3

Zack Zwiezen writes, "It seems like just yesterday when Valve announced a trilogy of expansions for their super-popular PC game, 2004's Half-Life 2. But it’s actually been 15 years since Episode 3 was announced. And while Valve has since released a new Half-Life game, it wasn’t the one the developer announced back in 2006."

Orchard1066d ago

Still hurts a little that we didn’t get Ep3… and the “leaked” plans for it sounded like a great finale to the HL2 story arc.

-Foxtrot1066d ago

It sounded fantastic and it's a shame we'll never get that

The ending of Half Life Alyx and what it did basically put the nail in the coffin for those plans.

Fntastic1066d ago

Whatever they release next i hope it's not catered to consoles first. Back 4 Blood seems to be going that route by having automatic flashlights, but i have high hopes Valve won't water down any games as they are usually released on PC way earlier, like HL2 and HLA.

CrimsonWing691065d ago (Edited 1065d ago )

Man, I wish I played Half-Life 2 when it first came out so I could love it like the fans do.

I played it on Xbox 360 and I thought it was ok. I recognize it set a standard for a lot of things like physics in game and story-telling in an FPS, but I think by the time I played it the design had been improved upon by other games.

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Valve Software: Gabe Newell believes brain interface will soon enable games to surpass reality

Valve's Gabe Newell believes that a brain interface for computers will make even more immersive games possible in the future that could surpass reality. He also thinks that this could be implemented very soon.

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Knightofelemia1192d ago

I would buy a machine that is set up to how Kirito and Asuna play games in Sword Art Online

Inverno1192d ago

The world of Sword Art is something I don't think any developer right now will ever bother attempting to create. I've seen .Hack too and the games both those anime show is something I wish someone would make. A real life simulation presented in a medieval fantasy-esque aesthetic would make me quit real life in a heart beat lol

Double_O_Revan1192d ago

Software might be really buggy though...

Profchaos1192d ago

Maybe and maybe the flying car bug was really just a prediction of flying car software failure.

ScootaKuH1192d ago

If reality moves at 3 frames per second that is 😉

Kabaneri1192d ago

That sounds cool but imagine the social consequences some people would get really attached to that alternate reality.

Lore1192d ago

Dwight in Second Life comes to mind

Extermin8or3_1192d ago

Automate farming systems abd have computers feed us through tubes and live theblife you want.... lol wait what if the Matrix Is real? :?o :p

AFKghost1192d ago

I really dont give a flying monkey doodoo about all this futurism bs. Its really just sad, old timers on their way out desperately trying to stay relevant when they should have been making good games for the last 20 years.

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