#Half life 2 episode 3 announcement series#

Meanwhile, a post about Laidlaw's letter was submitted to /r/Games, where it gathered upwards of 11,400 points (95% upvoted) and 1,500 comments within 15 hours.

#Half life 2 episode 3 announcement series#

The post is written as a letter addressed to 'Dearest Playa' from 'Gertie Fremont.' That day, a synopsis of the letter rewritten with actual characters from the Half-Life series was uploaded to Pastebin. On August 25th, 2017, former Half-Life leader writer Marc Laidlaw posted a blog post titled 'Epistle 3,' which many speculated was a plot summary for the Half-Life 3. Inevitably, fan speculations about the Half Life 3 project began to spread wildly across the gaming community, which became further strengthened by leaked information from Valve's internal bug-tracking Jira database confirming that there are two development groups involved with the project, one marked 'Half-Life 3' with 46 staff members and another one marked 'Half-Life 3 Core' with 10 staff members. As of June 17th, 2013, both comics received respectively more than 990 and 5,400 Facebook likes. On June 8th, 2012, and April 2nd, 2013, Julia Lepetit and Andrew Bridgman submitted 2 comics to the videogame humor sharing website Dorkly about the constant excitement of Half-Life 3 and the common release claims on April Fools' day. Both the rumors and the confirmation on the new engine lead to various websites speculating it to be the reason Half-Life 3 was delayed numerous times, such as VG 24/7, Joystiq, Eurogamer, Trusted Reviews and Now Gamer. This was later confirmed during a visit of 4chan's /v/ (videogames) board at Valve in celebration of Gabe Newell's 50th birthday (shown below) in early November of the same year. In early August of 2012, numerous rumors were released which speculated that Valve was working on a new gaming engine.

Prior to large gaming events, such as the Electronic Entertainment Expo, speculations on the announcement of Half-Life 3 are often made surrounding Valve's presentation during the events, which are commonly later debunked by various gaming websites as it becomes clear the sequel won't appear during the event. The following day a second piece titled 'Half-Life 3 confirmed' was posted on the site Team Rebellion.

The interview was reported on the next day by SK-Gaming in a piece titled 'Half-Life 3 confirmed'. Following the release of Episode 2, in an exclusive interview with on December 12, 2007, Valve marketing director, Doug Lombardi stated that a third entry in the main Half-Life series would happen following the end of the Episodes. Instead, Episode Two was released over a year after Episode One, and Half-Life 2: Episode Three, which was supposed to follow 6 months after Episode 2, has been delayed indefinitely. Originally, Valve intended to release the episodes 6 months apart. This was followed by Half-Life 2: Episode One on June 1, 2006, and Half Life 2: Episode Two on October 10, 2007. On November 16, 2004, Valve released Half-Life 2, the sequel to the original game. And considering the Combine can contain him at all demonstrates just how far beyond humanity both of them are.Valve's Half-Life franchise started on November 19th, 1998, and was as well the debut title of Valve Software. That the G-Man has now shown the ability to not just stop time, but utterly alter the timeline with seemingly no paradoxes drastically alters our fundamental understanding of the setting. The loss of the Seven-Hour War is still fresh. Set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combines brutal occupation of Earth. While we don't yet know the consequences of removing Alyx from the timeline, this does cement the G-Man and his mysterious employers as a much more adversarial force in the Half-Life universe, a force that is also at odds with the Combine. Announcement Trailer Gameplay Video 1 Gameplay Video 2 Gameplay Video 3. This scene takes one of the biggest cliffhangers in gaming history and massively flips it on its head. The game ends with Gordon grabbing his crowbar, setting the stage for the long-awaited Half-Life 3. Eli wakes Gordon up and swears to kill the G-Man for taking his daughter away. After the credits, we now see the now altered ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 2.В Eli Vance is alive, but Alyx is now absent from the scene.