In search of Half-Life 3

A week ago, the journalist of the portal Game Informer's Andrew Reiner said in the podcast the story of anonymous either former, or current employee of Valve status Half-Life 3. A few days later, he wrote a little more detailed column with the details.

The main thing you need to pay attention to the request of the author to perceive the information with a grain of salt, as it is absolutely not verified. Unfortunately, most Russian-language publications did not, and published the news with a loud affirmative title: "the cause of the abolition of the continue Half-Life", "Why we'll never see Half-Life 3", "Half-Life 3 appeared through the culture of the developing Valve". Western colleagues were rightly much more cautious in his statements: "a Source at Valve said that Half-Life 3 may not come out," "Apparently, Valve have done prototypes of Half-Life 3 in the genre of RTS", "Half-Life 3 killed a large number of Half-Life3?".

Now furnished with news of any potential sequel to Half-Life is on a constant spiral. A few times a year out loud the news is either someone's ugly trolling or unconfirmed data that the better you can collect yourself. In 2016 it was Gamescom with a poster of Half-Life 3 and post of a certain anonymous source on reddit, is very convincing promising revolutionary Half-Life 3. The message was soon deleted at the request of the Valve (which, of course, was not true), it's added weight made-up stories, and games edition has appear again screaming headlines.

And if you still have not read the article from Game Informer, then do it now, good DTF.ru published a good translation.

Why is this article not called us a desire to flee and to write the important news? What's wrong this time?

The fact of the matter is that all so. Everything is smooth and perfectly fits into the framework of the already long-known facts. A guide for new employees-Valve appeared in 2012 and since then we know how it work internally, what they are guided in the selection of projects and what they thus have freedom. Leakage from the system tracking errors and permanent traces of HL3 in the source codes of all the products, Valve tossed new facts — it is a open world game, it is a quest, a shooter with RPG elements. Developers are often told that each game in the series had sprung up around a single idea or particular engine. And about that George. John. Abrams is scripts Portal and Half-Life does not know just lazy.

Gather together all these stories and you will get the text of the revelations of the developer, which stirred the public of Game Informer. Maybe it is even true. And maybe another attempt to play on the emotions of fans. But it does not play any role until then, until will not be any tangible evidence or statements from Valve.