It's funny that no one read this as "More Portal 2 DLC announced in 60 days," as that would have been far more likely.
Even if this was a legitimate account, though, I would suspect Rattmann to post information related to Portal rather than Half-Life. Of course, Valve claims the Twitter account is fake. The post showed up on December 12, so this would put an announcement on February 11. The message: "Min: 60 days, Max: Unknown." Many have taken this as a clue that there will be a Half-Life 3 announcement in 60 days. In fact, Valve claims there is no hidden message in the Wheatley video.īut there was and interesting tweet from the Twitter account of Doug Rattmann, a character from Portal. Of course, the message was vague, to say the least, and most likely an instance of fans reading too much into things. There was a video of Wheatley from Portal 2 shown during the Awards, which many fans claim has a secret message about Half-Life. Then the VGAs came and went without a peep about Half-Life 3. I certainly wouldn't have responded to that load of gibberish, and it seems somewhat unlikely that Newell would either. Then again, it is possible that after so many years, Valve no longer saw a point in including the "2" in the title, and the game will simply be called "Half-Life: Episode 3."Īdditionally, a couple emails supposedly went out from Valve CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell himself, telling some angry fans that there will be something revealed at E3, and it's indeed "something with a three in it." Of course, many are left pondering the legitimacy of the emails, especially considering the fact that they were responses to messages that were highly offensive and practically incoherent. Also, we would expect the next title to be "Half-Life 2: Episode Three" or simply "Half-Life 3," not "Half-Life: Episode Three." It's hard to trust anonymous sources who can't even say the correct name of the thing they're supposedly working on. though) and we can't say for certain whether there's any truth to this claim. Shortly after, a voice actor went on record to say that work was being done on "Half-Life: Episode Three." However, this person is still anonymous (we do know it's someone from the U.S.
This fired up the rumor mill about the release of this long-awaited sequel. In fact, shortly before the VGAs, a Valve employee was spotted-and willingly photographed-wearing a Half-Life 3 t-shirt. Valve has been very tight-lipped about Half-Life 2: Episode Three or Half-Life 3 (whichever title the new game will have) ever since 2007.īut they've been teasing fans nonetheless, especially lately. We learned that, in the Half-Life world, something important happened on an Aperture ship called the Borealis, and we were thrilled to get to find out more about this in Episode Three. They even gave us insight into the whole Half-Life/Portal connection, explaining that Half-Life's Black Mesa and Portal's Aperture Science are two organizations competing for government grants. And not only that, it threw a lot of incredibly exciting information at us. Episode Two, the last expansion to the game, ended with a cliffhanger. You see, we never got a real ending for Half-Life 2. No, this is something completely different. The thing about Half-Life 3 is that it's not just a greatly anticipated sequel like, say, Metal Gear Solid 5 or Gears of War 4 would be. This is simply one of the most anticipated video games of all time. In fact, there was a part of me that hung onto the shred of hope that there would be something Half-Life related at the VGAs this year. Now, I can't blame the fans for buying into this time and time again.
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SPIKE TV hosted their annual Video Game Awards a couple weeks ago, and this was no exception just before the VGAs, the Internet exploded with Half-Life 3 rumors. Whenever there's a major gaming event, rumors start emerging about a Half-Life 3 reveal.