Reporter Suggests Half-Life 3 Will Be a Steam Machine Launch Title (arstechnica.com)
(Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:50PM (BeauHD)
from the this-time-we-mean-it dept.)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/16/2143202/reporter-suggests-half-life-3-will-be-a-steam-machine-launch-title
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/journalist-insists-half-life-3-will-launch-with-steam-machine-in-spring-2026/
A veteran games journalist claims Half-Life 3 is real and [1]still planned as a Spring 2026 launch title tied to Valve's next Steam Machine push. Ars Technica reports:
> On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted on a [2]recent Insider Gaming podcast that "everybody I've talked to are still adamant [Half-Life 3] is a game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine."
>
> Straw -- who has [3]a long [4]history of [5]reporting gaming rumors [6]from anonymous sources -- said this Half-Life 3 information is "not [from] these run-of-the-mill sources that haven't gotten me information before. ... These aren't like random, one-off people." And those sources are "still adamant that the game is coming in the spring," Straw added, noting that he was "specifically told [that] spring 2026 [is the window] for the Steam Machine, for the Frame, for the Controller, [and] for Half-Life 3." [...]
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> Timing specifics aside, Straw said his sources have him convinced that the long wait for Half-Life 3 is coming to an end in the near future. "The game's real," he said. "At the end of the day, the game is real. There's no denying it. It's just a 'when' and not an 'if' at this point."
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/journalist-insists-half-life-3-will-launch-with-steam-machine-in-spring-2026/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/live/x7GRLcaZtgA
[3] https://x.com/MikeStrawMedia/status/1514651538026815490
[4] https://x.com/mikestrawmedia/status/1869824116339159465?s=46
[5] https://insider-gaming.com/exclusive-new-the-lord-of-the-rings-game-in-development/
[6] https://mikestrawmedia.com/column/lets-talk-about-anonymous-sources/
> On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted on a [2]recent Insider Gaming podcast that "everybody I've talked to are still adamant [Half-Life 3] is a game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine."
>
> Straw -- who has [3]a long [4]history of [5]reporting gaming rumors [6]from anonymous sources -- said this Half-Life 3 information is "not [from] these run-of-the-mill sources that haven't gotten me information before. ... These aren't like random, one-off people." And those sources are "still adamant that the game is coming in the spring," Straw added, noting that he was "specifically told [that] spring 2026 [is the window] for the Steam Machine, for the Frame, for the Controller, [and] for Half-Life 3." [...]
>
> Timing specifics aside, Straw said his sources have him convinced that the long wait for Half-Life 3 is coming to an end in the near future. "The game's real," he said. "At the end of the day, the game is real. There's no denying it. It's just a 'when' and not an 'if' at this point."
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/journalist-insists-half-life-3-will-launch-with-steam-machine-in-spring-2026/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/live/x7GRLcaZtgA
[3] https://x.com/MikeStrawMedia/status/1514651538026815490
[4] https://x.com/mikestrawmedia/status/1869824116339159465?s=46
[5] https://insider-gaming.com/exclusive-new-the-lord-of-the-rings-game-in-development/
[6] https://mikestrawmedia.com/column/lets-talk-about-anonymous-sources/
Wow (Score:2)
by liqu1d ( 4349325 )
2026, 6 divided by 2 is 3. Half life 3 is confirmed!!
Steam Machine launch title? Meh. (Score:2)
by williamyf ( 227051 )
I'd rather play on PC....
Steam Machine timed exclusive? Shut Up And Take My Money !!!!!!!!!!!
Really? Next spring? (Score:2)
by wakeboarder ( 2695839 )
Because all the 'sources' were saying they would announce it this fall. These promises are as good as nuclear fusion. We get to next spring and it will be next fall.
The data miners have been predicting HL3 release (Score:1)
for a while now. Apparently it's been in production for around four or five years.