Half-Life 3

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Half-Life 3 is just the hot exclusive Valve needs to propel SteamOS past Windows


The ultimate system seller

Opinion: Just as Half-Life 2 helped launch Steam, a sequel could help establish non-Windows PC gaming.

We found this logo hidden deep in an abandoned steel forge, Credit: Aurich Lawson | Steam

A little over 20 years ago, Valve was getting ready to release a new Half-Life game. At the same time, the company was trying to push Steam as a new option for players to download and update games over the Internet.

Requiring Steam in order to play Half-Life 2 led to plenty of grumbling from players in 2004. But the high-profile Steam exclusive helped build an instant user base for Valve’s fresh distribution system, setting it on a path to eventually become the unquestioned leader in the space. The link between the new game and the new platform helped promote a bold alternative to the retail game sales and distribution systems that had dominated PC gaming for decades.

Remember DVD-ROMs?

Remember DVD-ROMs? Credit: Reddit

Today, all indications suggest that Valve is getting ready to release a new Half-Life game. At the same time, the company is getting ready to push SteamOS as a new option for third-party hardware makers and individual users to “download and test themselves.”

Requiring SteamOS to play Half-Life 3 would definitely lead to a lot of grumbling from players. But the high-profile exclusive could help build an instant user base for Valve’s fresh operating system, perhaps setting it on the path to become the unquestioned leader in the space. A link between the new game and the new platform could help promote a bold alternative to the Windows-based systems that have dominated PC gaming for decades.

Not another Steam Machine

Getting players to change the established platform they use to buy and play games (either in terms of hardware or software) usually requires some sort of instantly apparent benefit for the player. Those benefits can range from the tangible (e.g., an improved controller, better graphics performance) to the ancillary (e.g., social features, achievements) to the downright weird (e.g., a second screen on a portable). Often, though, a core reason why players switch platforms is for access to exclusive “system seller” games that aren’t available any other way.

Half-Life 2‘s role in popularizing early Steam shows just how much a highly anticipated exclusive can convince otherwise reluctant players to invest time and effort in a new platform. To see what can happen without such an exclusive, we only need to look to Valve’s 2015 launch of the Steam Machine hardware line, powered by the first version of the Linux-based SteamOS.

Valve offered players very little in the way of affirmative reasons to switch to a SteamOS-powered Steam Machine in 2015.

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Valve offered players very little in the way of affirmative reasons to switch to a SteamOS-powered Steam Machine in 2015. Credit: Alienware

At the time, Valve was selling SteamOS mainly as an alternative to a new Windows 8 environment that Valve co-founder Gabe Newell saw as a “catastrophe” in the making for the PC gaming world. Newell described SteamOS as a “hedging strategy” against Microsoft’s potential ability to force all Windows 8 app distribution through the Windows Store, a la Apple’s total control of iPhone app distribution.

When Microsoft failed to impose that kind of hegemonic control over Windows apps and games, Valve was left with little else to convince players that it was worth buying a Windows-free Steam Machine (or going through the onerous process of installing the original SteamOS on their gaming rigs). Sure, using SteamOS meant saving a few bucks on a Windows license. But it also meant being stuck with an extremely limited library of Linux ports (especially when it came to releases from major publishers) and poor technical performance compared to Windows even when those ports were available.

Given those obvious downsides—and the lack of any obvious upsides—it’s no wonder that users overwhelmingly ignored SteamOS and Steam Machines at the time. But as we argued way back in 2013, a major exclusive on the scale of Half-Life 3 could have convinced a lot of gamers to overlook at least some of those downsides and give the new platform a chance.

A little push

Fast forward to today, and the modern version of SteamOS is in a much better place than the Steam Machine-era version ever was. That’s thanks in large part to Valve’s consistent work on the Proton compatibility layer, which lets the Linux-based SteamOS run almost any game that’s designed for Windows (with only a few major exceptions). That wide compatibility has been a huge boon for the Steam Deck, which offered many players easy handheld access to vast swathes of PC gaming for the first time. The Steam Deck also showed off SteamOS’s major user interface and user experience benefits over clunkier Windows-based gaming portables.

The Steam Deck served as an excellent proof of concept for the viability of SteamOS hardware with the gaming masses.

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The Steam Deck served as an excellent proof of concept for the viability of SteamOS hardware with the gaming masses. Credit: Kyle Orland

Still, the benefits of switching from Windows to SteamOS might seem a bit amorphous to many players today. If Valve is really interested in pushing its OS as an alternative to Windows gaming, a big exclusive game is just the thing to convince a critical mass of players to make the leap. And when it comes to massive PC gaming exclusives, it doesn’t get much bigger than the long, long-awaited Half-Life 3.

We know it might sound ludicrous to suggest that Valve’s biggest game in years should ignore the Windows platform that’s been used by practically every PC gamer for decades. Keep in mind, though, that there would be nothing stopping existing Windows gamers from downloading and installing a free copy of the Linux-based SteamOS (likely on a separate drive or partition) to get access to Half-Life 3.

Yes, installing a new operating system (especially one based on Linux) is not exactly a plug-and-play process. But Valve has a long history of streamlining game downloads, updates, and driver installations through Steam itself. If anyone can make the process of setting up a new OS relatively seamless, it’s Valve.

And let’s not forget that millions of gamers already have easy access to SteamOS through Steam Deck hardware. Those aging Steam Decks might not be powerful enough to run a game like Half-Life 3 at maximum graphics settings, but Valve games have a history of scaling down well on low-end systems.

Valve’s leaked “Powered by SteamOS” initiative also seems poised to let third-party hardware makers jump in with more powerful (and more Half-Life 3-capable) desktops, laptops, and handhelds with SteamOS pre-installed. And that’s before we even consider the potential impact of a more powerful “Steam Deck 2,” which Valve’s Pierre-Loup  Griffais said in 2023 could potentially come in “the next couple of years.”

Time for a bold move

Tying a major game like Half-Life 3 to a completely new and largely untested operating system would surely lead to some deafening pushback from gamers happy with the Windows-based status quo. An exclusive release could also be risky if SteamOS ends up showing some technical problems as it tries to grow past its Steam Deck roots (Linux doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to things like game driver compatibility across different hardware).

The Lenovo Legion Go S will be the first non-Valve hardware to be officially “Powered by SteamOS.” A Windows-sporting version will be more expensive

The Lenovo Legion Go S will be the first non-Valve hardware to be officially “Powered by SteamOS.” A Windows-sporting version will be more expensive Credit: Lenovo

Despite all that, we’re pretty confident that the vast majority of players interested in Half-Life 3 would jump through a few OS-related hoops to get access to the game. And many of those players would likely stick with Valve’s gaming-optimized OS going forward rather than spending money on another Windows license.

Even a timed exclusivity window for Half-Life 3 on SteamOS could push a lot of early adopters to see what all the fuss is about without excluding those who refuse to switch away from Windows. Failing even that, maybe a non-exclusive Half-Life 3 could be included as a pre-installed freebie with future versions of SteamOS, as an incentive for the curious to try out a new operating system.

With the coming wide release of SteamOS, Valve has a rare opportunity to upend the PC gaming OS dominance that Microsoft more or less stumbled into decades ago. A game like Half-Life 3 could be just the carrot needed to get PC gaming as a whole over its longstanding Windows dependence.

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Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. He has journalism and computer science degrees from University of Maryland. He once wrote a whole book about Minesweeper.

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Fresh leaks suggest Half-Life 3 development may be nearing completion

Don’t you dare give me hope

The newly discovered engine updates are a particularly good sign for the HLX project after credible reports that the game had gone into a friends and family playtesting phase at Valve near the end of 2024. While many Valve projects have seen major changes after that kind of testing, McVicker says that these new engine updates are “confirmation indeed that HLX survived the holiday break, does not seem to be going through any form of reboot, and [that] an announcement seems to be inching ever closer.”

A December video from “Gabe Follower” suggesting that Half-Life 3 had entered a friend and family testing phase.

While McVicker doesn’t go into detail on every single engine variable hinted at in the latest Valve game updates, he provides a summary version with informed speculation on what all those variables could mean for HLX. That includes signs of a “heavily evolved” physics engine from Half-Life 2 that can seemingly track object traits such as buoyancy, flammability, deformation, as well as fluid simulation and dynamic sound properties based on an object’s status.

Most intriguingly, McVicker talks up signs that HLX may include a new NPC “mood system,” letting these AI-controlled characters react “verbally and non-verbally” to what they can see, hear, or even smell in the immediate area. The code also hints at “dynamically adjustable nav meshes” that will let NPCs navigate easily around destructible environmental hazards, and at a system for in-game objects to be placed semi-randomly during multiple playthroughs, a la Left 4 Dead‘s director system.

We know it’s easy to be skeptical after so many years of fruitless speculation regarding Half-Life 3. But when McVicker says that signs suggest that an actual Half-Life 3 announcement could come this year, let’s just say we want to believe.

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Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again

The more than two decades since Half-Life 2‘s release have been filled with plenty of rumors and hints about Half-Life 3, ranging from the officialish to the thin to the downright misleading. As we head into 2025, though, we’re approaching something close to a critical mass of rumors and leaks suggesting that Half-Life 3 is really in the works this time, and could be officially announced in the coming months.

The latest tease came just before the end of 2024 via a New Year’s Eve social media video from G-Man voice actor Mike Shapiro. In the voice of the mysterious in-game bureaucrat, Shapiro expresses hopes that “the next quarter century [will] deliver as many unexpected surprises as did the millennium’s first (emphasis added)… See you in the new year.”

#Valve #Halflife #GMan #2025 pic.twitter.com/mdT5hlxKJT

— Mike Shapiro (@mikeshapiroland) December 31, 2024

The post is all the more notable because it’s Shapiro’s first in over four years, when he concluded a flurry of promotional posts surrounding the release of Half-Life: Alyx (many of which were in-character as G-Man). And in 2020, just after Alyx‘s release, Shapiro told USGamer that he had recently worked on a “blast from the past” project that he would “announce… on my Twitter feed when I’m allowed to” (no such announcement has been forthcoming for any other game).

“I was working on that game for quite a while before I knew [what it was],” Shapiro said at the time of the unannounced project. “There was a rehearsal and some recordings, and after one of the recording sessions I was having a drink with the director. He told me what the game was, and nobody knows that this is coming.

“This is going to be such a mindblowing re-up from what people have come to know,” Shapiro continued in 2020. “It’s going to really… it’s going to make people have a complete re-understanding of what they thought they knew about the story in the game prior to it, and I don’t even know if people are expecting it.”

Raised HLX-pectations

On its own, a single in-character post from a voice actor would probably be a bit too cryptic to excite Half-Life fans who have seen their sequel hopes dashed so often over the last two decades. But the unexpected tease comes amid a wave of leaks and rumors surrounding “HLX,” an internal Valve project that has been referenced in a number of other Source 2 engine game files recently.

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These are the lasting things that Half-Life 2 gave us, besides headcrabs and crowbars


Beyond the game itself (which rocks), Half-Life 2 had a big impact on PC gaming.

This article is part of our 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2 series. Credit: Aurich Lawson

It’s Half-Life 2 week at Ars Technica! This Saturday, November 16, is the 20th anniversary of the release of Half-Life 2—a game of historical importance for the artistic medium and technology of computer games. Each day up through the 16th, we’ll be running a new article looking back at the game and its impact.

“Well, I just hate the idea that our games might waste people’s time. Why spend four years of your life building something that isn’t innovative and is basically pointless?”

Valve software founder Gabe Newell is quoted by Geoff Keighley—yes, the Game Awards guy, back then a GameSpot writer—as saying this in June 1999, six months after the original Half-Life launched. Newell gave his team no real budget or deadline, only the assignment to “follow up the best PC game of all time” and redefine the genre.

When Half-Life 2 arrived in November 2004, the Collector’s Edition contained about 2.6GB of files. The game, however, contained so many things that would seem brand new in gaming, or just brave, that it’s hard to even list them.

Except I’m going to try that right here. Some will be hard to pin definitively in time to Half-Life 2 (HL2). But like many great games, HL2 refined existing ideas, borrowed others, and had a few of its own to show off.

Note that some aspects of the game itself, its status as Steam’s big push title, and what it’s like to play it today, are covered by other writers during Ars’ multi-day celebration of the game’s 20th anniversary. That includes the Gravity Gun.

How many film and gaming careers were launched by people learning how to make the Scout do something goofy?

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How many film and gaming careers were launched by people learning how to make the Scout do something goofy? Credit: Valve

The Source Engine

It’s hard to imagine another game developer building an engine with such a forward-thinking mission as Source. Rather than just build the thing that runs their next game, Valve crafted Source to be modular, such that its core could be continually improved (and shipped out over Steam), and newer technologies could be optionally ported into games both new and old, while not breaking any older titles working perfectly fine.

Source started development during the late stages of the original Half-Life, but its impact goes far beyond the series. Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Portal 1/2, and Left 4 Dead, from Valve alone, take up multiple slots on lists of the all-time best games. The Stanley Parable, Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines, and a whole lot of other games used Source, too. Countless future game developers, level designers, and mod makers cut their teeth on the very open and freely available Source code tools.

And then, of course, where would we be as a society were it not for Source Filmmaker and Garry’s Mod, without which we would never have Save as .dmx and Skibidi Toilet.

Half-Life: Alyx is a technical marvel of the VR age, but it’s pulled along by the emotional bonds of Alyx and Russell, and the quest to save Eli Vance.

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Half-Life: Alyx is a technical marvel of the VR age, but it’s pulled along by the emotional bonds of Alyx and Russell, and the quest to save Eli Vance. Credit: Valve

A shooter with family dynamics

Novelist Marc Laidlaw has made it clear, multiple times, that he did not truly create the Half-Life story when he joined Valve; it was “all there when I got there, in embryo,” he told Rock Paper Shotgun. Laidlaw helped the developers tell their story through level design and wrote short, funny, unnerving dialogue.

For Half-Life 2, Laidlaw and the devs were tasked with creating some honest-to-goodness characters, something you didn’t get very often in first-person shooters (they were all dead in 1994’s System Shock). So in walked that father/daughter team of Eli and Alyx Vance, and the extended Black Mesa family, including folks like Dr. Kleiner.

These real and makeshift family members gave the mute protagonist Gordon Freeman stakes in wanting to fix the future. And Laidlaw’s “basic dramatic unit” set a precedent for lots of shooty-yet-soft-hearted games down the road: Mass Effect, The Last of Us, Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption, and far more.

Remember when a Boston-area medical manufacturing firm, run by a Half-Life fan, got everyone thinking a sequel was coming? Fun times. Credit: Black Mesa

Intense speculation about what Valve is actually doing

Another unique thing Laidlaw helped develop in PC gaming: intense grief and longing for a sequel that both does and does not exist, channeled through endless speculation about Valve’s processes and general radio silence.

Half-Life 2 got “Episodes” but never a true numbered Half-Life 3 sequel. The likelihood of 3 took a hit when Laidlaw unexpectedly announced his retirement in January 2016. Then it got even less likely, or maybe just sad, when Laidlaw posted a barely disguised “snapshot of a dream” of “Epistle 3” to his blog (since deleted and later transposed on Pastebin).

Laidlaw has expressed regret about this move. Fans have expressed regret that Half-Life 3 somehow seems even less likely, having seen Valve’s premiere writer post such a seemingly despondent bit of primary source fan fiction.

“Fans of popular game eager for sequel” isn’t itself a unique thing, but it is for Half-Life 3’s quantum existence. Valve published its new employee handbook from around 2012 on the web, and in it, you can read about the company’s boldly flat structure. To summarize greatly: Projects only get started if someone can get enough fellow employees to wheel their desks over and work on it with them. The company doesn’t take canceled or stalled games to heart; in its handbook, it’s almost celebrated that it killed Prospero as one of its first major decisions.

So the fact that Half-Life 3 exists only as something that hasn’t been formally canceled is uniquely frustrating. HL2’s last (chronological) chapter left off on a global-scale cliffhanger, and the only reason a sequel doesn’t exist is because too many other things are more appealing than developing a new first-person shooter. If you worked at Valve, you tell yourself, maybe you could change this! Maybe.

What, you’re telling me now it’s illegal to break in, take source code, and then ask for a job? This is a police state!

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What, you’re telling me now it’s illegal to break in, take source code, and then ask for a job? This is a police state! Credit: Valve

Source code leak drama

The Wikipedia pages “List of commercial video games with available source code” and its cousin “Later released source code” show that, up until 2003, most of the notable games whose source code became publicly available were either altruistic efforts at preservation or, for some reason, accidental inclusions of source code on demos or in dummy files on the game disc.

And then, in late 2003, Valve and Half-Life superfan Axel Gembe hacked into Valve’s servers, grabbed the Half-Life 2 source code that existed at the time and posted it to the web. It not only showed off parts of the game Valve wanted to keep under wraps, but it showed just how far behind the game’s development was relative to the release date that had blown by weeks earlier. Valve’s response was typically atypical: they acknowledged the source code as real, asked their biggest fans for help, and then released the game a year later, to critical and commercial success.

The leak further ensconced Valve as a different kind of company, one with a particularly dedicated fanbase. It also seems to have taught companies a lesson about hardening their servers and development environments. Early builds of games still leak—witness Space Marine 2 this past July—but full source code leaks, coming from network intrusions, are something you don’t see quite so often.

Pre-loading a game before release

It would be hard to go back in time and tell our pre-broadband selves about pre-loading. You download entire games, over the Internet, and then they’re ready to play one second after the release time—no store lines, no drive back home, no stuffed servers or crashed discs. It seems like a remarkable bit of trust, though it’s really just a way to lessen server load on release day.

It’s hard to pin down which game first offered pre-loading in the modern sense, but HL2, being a major launch title for Valve’s Steam service and a title with heavy demand, definitely popularized the concept.

Always-online for single-player games

Here’s one way that Half-Life 2 moved the industry forward that some folks might want to move back.

Technically, you can play HL2 without an Internet connection, and maybe for long periods of time. But for most people, playing HL2 without a persistent net connection involves activating the game on Steam, letting it fully update, and then turning on Steam’s “Offline Mode” to play it. There’s no time limit, but you need to keep Steam active while playing.

It’s not so much the particular connection demands of HL2 that make it notable, but the pathway that it, and Steam, created on which other companies moved ahead, treating gaming as something that, by default, happens with at least a connection, and preferably a persistent one.

It’s Game of the Year. Which year? Most of them, really (until Disco Elysium shows up).

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It’s Game of the Year. Which year? Most of them, really (until Disco Elysium shows up). Credit: Valve

A place on “All-time” video game rankings forever

Half-Life 2 introduced many ground-breaking things at once—deep facial animations and expressions, an accessible physics engine, a compelling global-scale but family-minded story—while also being tremendously enjoyable game to play through. This has made it hard for anyone to suggest another game to go above it on any “All-time greatest games” list, especially those with a PC focus.

Not that they don’t try. PC Gamer has HL2 at 7 out of 100, mostly because it has lost an understandable amount of “Hotness” in 20 years. IGN has it at No. 9 (while its descendant Portal 2 takes third place). Metacritic, however fallible, slots it in universal second place for PC games.

So give Half-Life 2 even more credit for fostering innovation in the “arbitrary ranked list of games” genre. Rock Paper Shotgun’s top 100 is cited as the best “to play on PC today,” as they have “paid no mind to what was important or influential.” And yet, Half-Life 2, as a game you can play in 2024, is still on that list. It’s really something, that game.

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Kevin is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering open-source software, PC gaming, home automation, repairability, e-bikes, and tech history. He has previously worked at Lifehacker, Wirecutter, iFixit, and Carbon Switch.

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Mysterious “Black Mesa” website says it’s “not secretly working on Half Life 3”

That’s what they want you to think —

It’s “actually a real company in the Boston area”—or is that just a cover?!

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Here at Ars, we’re always on the lookout for hints and actions that suggest the long, long wait for Half-Life 3 may eventually come to an end. So when users across the Internet started making note of the mysterious and intriguingly named BlackMesa.com recently, our ears perked up for signs of a new promotional alternate reality game (ARG).

Alas, this seems like yet another false alarm. BlackMesa.com is simply the website for Black Mesa, which confirmed in a public statement that it is “actually a real company in the Boston area… working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production.”

HALF LIFE 3 MIGHT BE GETTING ANNOUNCED ON SEPTEMBER 30THhttps://t.co/hSytiq2GoR Just went live and it has a countdown at the bottom of the page, that ends on September 30th. When it finishes it will display a white text saying “That’s it.” pic.twitter.com/MK3QveRc6R

— PеQu (@ImPeQu) August 9, 2024

The BlackMesa.com domain name dates back to at least 2006, when the address was filled with search engine optimization ads by an outfit called MDNH, Inc. But in 2022, a page advertising the domain’s availability for purchase was suddenly replaced by a mysterious logo that bears a striking resemblance to the fictional Black Mesa logo in the games. And then there’s the hard-to-read cipher at the bottom, the kind of thing that an ARG might use to hide important information in plain sight.

The site stayed like that, to little wider notice or suspicion, until August 8, when Valve fans on social media began to “[wake] up to a Black Mesa website” that had suddenly been updated with a new header declaring, “Science requires process. Our insight defends it.” Others on social media were quick to note the old cipher text as a well as a new, obfuscated JavaScript countdown function with the internal name “Lambda Incident”. That countdown seemed to be pointing toward something happening on September 30, which seems like as good a time as any to announce Half-Life 3, right?

Truth is less interesting than fiction

The old Black Mesa web site, as it appeared for roughly two years, until last week. Note the cipher text on the bottom.

Enlarge / The old Black Mesa web site, as it appeared for roughly two years, until last week. Note the cipher text on the bottom.

The Valve faithful hoping this was a new version of the old Portal 2 Potato ARG had their hopes quickly dashed, though. Internet sleuths soon found a digital paper trail for Charles Fracchia, a research scientist who is listed on LinkedIn and elsewhere as the founder of “Black Mesa, a stealth company developing technologies that create provable assurance for advanced manufacturing workflows” since back in 2022. And by last Friday, the Black Mesa team put up a blog post quashing any game-related rumors that might be circulating.

“As much as we would be honored to be part of any Valve game—we do not work in this sector at all,” the blog post reads. “We are not secretly working on Half-Life 3, Project White Sands (whatever that is/may be) or any other Valve title—we’re just nerds working to secure the global bioeconomy.”

The team went on to thank the Half-Life community that had sent in “a ton of messages of support and curiosity” about the company, as well as “thousands of fake inquiries” that “made us laugh.” As for that old ciphertext? Turns out solving it simply unlocked a recruitment message seeking “engineers, cybersecurity professionals, and biologists” for the company. “KingPotatoVII please reach out, we’ve been trying to send you some swag for cracking the cipher a while back,” the Black Mesa team wrote with a smiley face emoji.

Any excuse to repost this video is a good one.

Despite the revelation of the real Black Mesa corporation, some hangers-on haven’t quite given up hope that this is all still just an extremely subtle bit of stealth marketing. “What if [actual scientist Charles Fraschia] is such a huge fan of Half-Life, like us, and decided to use his image/likeness to do this ARG for the game?” one Reddit user wrote last week. “Maybe he reached out and absolutely went full madlad with Valve to make this a magnum opus of an ARG. … Could be simply someone is heavy trolling us, and to be honest I’m not even mad because this is fun af!”

Keep hope alive, Valve faithful! Half-Life 3 is obviously just around the corner, no matter what anyone says! The truth is out there for those with eyes to see it!

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