So now we have to have fresh rumors, fresh rumors that Valve might learn to count to
three.
That's right, a new rumor that Half-Life 3 might be imminent.
Now before the last couple of Half-Life releases, the voice actor who plays G-Man who's a major
character in the Half-Life series dropped a cryptic post on Twitter on New Year's Eve
leading to fresh speculation that Half-Life 3 might be coming only 21 years, 21 years
after Half-Life 2.
Okay, all hail Lord Gabon.
So the two questions we're going to answer is do we think it's actually coming or is
this another set of silly things to get Gamer's hopes up?
And if so, what does this mean for launches in 2025?
I want to believe I do.
I just love how you're like, I'm tired of waiting three years in between seasons and
then you're like, it's been 21 years since Half-Life 2.
Oh, somebody had the chance, like nope, not a chance.
So the reason this sparked a bunch of stuff over at Windows Central is the guy who plays
G-Man, he's done this before, right?
He uses G-Man voice, he uses the voice of Barnacle Hoon.
He has not posted anything on Twitter since the release window of Half-Life Alex, which
was the last kind of follow-up they did.
He only ever posted about Half-Life, that's it.
This is not like something he, like an account he uses all the time, right?
So I want to believe, I really do.
I really, really do.
This is obviously Half-Life 2 and Half-Life Invalid Not Counting to 3 has been a meme
for a long time.
People have been waiting for Half-Life 3 for literally two decades.
Two decades.
Yeah.
What do you think, Jay?
What's the likelihood that Valve actually releases a video game this year?
I mean, from what I know, I would not put money on it.
If I was a gambling man, I would put my money on black rather than put money on the fact
that Valve's going to come out with a game this year.
I don't know.
That's me.
I've been playing for 21 years.
It's been a long time.
But, I mean, we are seeing a lot of, and also in the movie, right?
In the movie world, we're seeing a lot of movies come back.
I mean, how long was it between Super Troopers and Super Troopers 2?
Oh, God.
How long was Beetlejuice and Beetlejuice 2?
Yeah.
So I mean, it's possible.
Yeah.
It's not a zero chance.
It's a near zero chance, but I don't know.
I wouldn't put money on it.
Somebody with a chance they gave on the phone with him, hey, want to screw with the fans?
I'll cut you a check if you post this.
And again, Lord knows Valve has the money.
You know, sort of lauders online distributor of video games on the planet.
This is what they do.
These guys print cash.
I want to believe.
They're the half-life games.
In my opinion, they are some of the best first-person shooters that have ever been released in the
history of video games.
They gave birth to Team Fortress, which obviously is one of the longest running online shooter
games that's ever existed.
It gave birth to Counterstrike.
It gave birth to all of this.
It came from the Half-Life 2 engine, or the Half-Life engine.
The memes around Half-Life have been around forever.
This is early internet shit because it's Half-Life.
Again, I want to believe.
But again, it's been 20 years and Valve does things at the speed of whenever the hell we
feel like it.
You know, yes, to the chat.
Valve does own state.
And they're right here in the good old Pacific Northwest.
This is where they are based.
They're less than 20 miles from where I'm sitting right now.
Again, I would love to see it.
I don't know if we're going to see it.
But the fact that this level of a Twitter post from one of the voice actors involved
gets everybody like, there's multiple news articles out there right now.
Is it finally coming?
Right?
Like it's insane.
It's insane.
Series is dead.
I don't know.
PC games has the thing.
The gamer has the thing.
There's...
I don't know.
We've exceeded the half life on the series.
Again, I don't know.
I think so.
This is the thing.
The biggest launch this year is supposed to be GTA 6.
And it's actually...
There's been some articles about this.
There's a bunch of video game companies that are pissed right now at Rockstar because Rockstar
refuses to say when they're dropping it.
And nobody, nobody in the video game industry wants to be within six weeks of GTA 6.
They just don't.
They don't release just...
And they're like...
And there's been talk behind the scenes that a bunch of the studios have reached out to
Rockstar and said, can you please...
We know it's coming in 2025.
We know.
Okay?
You've made that clear.
When?
Because if it's September, we'll leave you alone.
We will literally...
We'll move.
We just...
But tell us something.
Give us anything on when GTA 6 is going to release because they don't want to release
near it.
Half-Life 3 is a similar type of project that I think if they announce it, it'll break the
internet.
I think everybody will lose their crap.
Yeah.
And somebody in the chat is saying they're agreeing with how Valve does their project.
They said if Half-Life 3 does the same thing, then it completely changes the video game
release schedule for the entire year.
This is something that is understandable, but it's kind of frustrating because movies
don't do things like this.
Movie release dates are set two years out.
So it gives the studios the opportunity to move around and be like, you know what?
We don't think competing with X-movie is going to be good for us.
So we're going to shift two weekends over.
We're going to move to this.
You know.
So I...
Come on gaming industry.
Get smart.
Stop fucking with us.
Anyway, what do you think?
Do you think it's Half-Life year?
Are we finally going to get Half-Life 3?
If it does, does it completely...
Does it completely fuck rock stars release timing for GTA 6?
I don't know.
I...
I think they're like two separate like markets.
Oh, no.
GTA 6, I think it's a much like more mainstream market, but goddamn, the hardcore gamers are
going to lose their crap.
Yeah, hardcore gamers are, but like you're, I don't know, Gen Zers are just going to care
about like GTA 6.
Valid.
But do they have any money is the question?
Of course, the guy's like, you would meet that have all the money to buy things.
That's also true.
Anyway, let us know what you think down in the comments below.