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Jason S: Half Life 3 will be announced this year

Half-Life will make a return

There’s been a lot of smoke surrounding the resurgence of Valve Corp.’s iconic shooter series, which has a long history in the gaming industry. The 2004 release of Half-Life 2 was followed by two episodes and a third that was announced and never materialized. The franchise then went dormant for 13 years before returning with the virtual-reality game Half-Life: Alyx in 2020. Now, rumors have been rumbling about a proper sequel, so I’ll call it: I predict that Half-Life 3 will be announced this year. Just two decades late.

bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-01-03/video-game-predictions-for-2025-from-grand-theft-auto-vi-to-silksong

awful news, rip

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-Major changes have been made in Source 2 since its last update in mid December

-HLX has survived Valve's holidays pattern of re-evaluating projects (where the game is played by external playtesters - L4D3 and a preliminary version of TF2 with aliens died during this period

-Line of codes added to Source 2 indicates that the game is its polish phase (for example, now the engine can reduce the computational power needed for each AI in a space according to the distance from the player)

-The Feb. 25 2025 Deadlock update added lines of code that indicates Valve is already adding upscalers such as FSR3 to HLX.

-Based on the code, HLX is indeed a single-player first person shooter, with high emphasis on interactivity, physics and simulations. Very much an evolution of Half-Life 2.

-An announcement for the year calendar year of "2025 "could" be expected.

Won't believe HL3 till I see it but this + the Shapiro tweet makes me thing something HL-related is probably coming

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