Half-Life 3 Is Reportedly Playable In Its Entirety (engadget.com)

(Tuesday May 06, 2025 @04:00AM (BeauHD) from the promising-signs dept.)

According to Valve insider Tyler McVicker, Half-Life 3 is [1]finally playable from start to finish and could be announced this summer, with a release as soon as winter 2025. Engadget reports:

> Besides McVicker's hours-long livestream, there have been other recent hints about Valve's progress on its highly anticipated title. In March, Valve concept artist Evgeniy Evstratiy claimed that he was in the room where Valve made Half-Life 3 on [2]CG Voices Podcast . In the same month, another Valve leaker, Gabe Follower, claimed that Half-Life 3 would be the "end of Gordon's adventure," potentially signaling a non-cliffhanger ending to one of gaming's best franchises. Outside of these rumors, internet sleuths discovered code referencing HLX, which is widely thought to be the codename for Half-Life 3, in major updates to Deadlock and Dota 2.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/gaming/half-life-3-is-reportedly-playable-in-its-entirety-and-could-be-announced-this-year-183030499.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl3F5IMLP_o&t=4506s

valve can count to 3? (Score:1)

by Mirddes ( 798147 )

now there's a game that might actually be worth paying $80 for

TFS is wrong, and TFA is disinformation (Score:3)

by Shadow of Eternity ( 795165 )

There is no "valve insider". There's a random streamer making shit up with no evidence whatsoever. That's it.

Meh (Score:2)

by devslash0 ( 4203435 )

After the success of Half Life 2, Half Life 3 can only be the longest-ever awaited disappointment. They don't make games like they used to.

Nooooo (Score:3)

by GrumpySteen ( 1250194 )

I'm pretty sure that the release of Half Life 3 is one of the signs of the apocalypse. WE'RE ALL DOOM3'D!

If true (Score:2)

by JamesTRexx ( 675890 )

Then I hope playable on the same hardware as the originals, or at least not a requerment to have a multi-gigabyte videocard to render things that won't be noticed anyway.

Besides, I think suddenly realistic graphics would break the transition between the episode 2 and 3.

Aside from this, they should bring out Alyx as a regular game as well for those of us not interested in virtual reality.

Now do Portal 3... (Score:1)

by clokwise ( 844691 )

and and let's hope HL3 has a native VR option too!!

SteamDeck (Score:2)

by DrYak ( 748999 )

This also gives hope that Valve could manage to keep makes SteamDecks beyond the 2.

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