![]() ![]() Sadly, according to prominent Valve insider and YouTuber Tyler McVicker (via VGC), Half-Life 3 is not in the works in any notable shape or form. Related: Valve's Reasoning For Not Making Half-Life 3 Is Really Frustrating ![]() Its success has paved the way for another new Half-Life release, with rumors of a Half-Life 3 continuing to persist. This seemed to change in March 2020 with the release of VR game Half-Life: Alyx, which was met with exceedingly high praise from fans both new and old. Given Valve has had immense success with things like its gaming platform Steam and its VR ventures, many were unsurprised to see it apparently scaling back on its full-fledged game development. While a new mainline Half-Life game was prototyped around 2013, plans for a Half-Life 3 were officially canceled sometime after, along with a number of other highly-anticipated Valve sequels. While Half-Life is recognized as being one of the highest-rated game series of all time, the franchise had been seemingly left by the wayside prior to 2020. The release of Half-Life: Alyxmore or less revived the series in a substantial way, sparking speculation over whether or not Half-Life 3 would finally happen. While this may have been a foregone conclusion a few years ago due to Valve's extended silence on the threequel, things changed in early 2020. Of course, the studio's fans want Half-Life 3.A new report from a reputable leaker in the Valve community claims that the long-awaited Half-Life 3is not in development, despite rumors of a new game in the series. And it sounds like the staff are up for making a big, non-VR Half-life game. So, what's next? Apparently Valve isn't afraid of Half-Life any more, now Alyx is out in the wild and received critical acclaim. Auto battler Dota Underlords came out in 2020, and most recently, VR title Half-Life: Alyx. Failed virtual card game Artifact came out in 2018. Eternally-popular competitive first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came out in 2012. A fair few, in fact, but they're typically multiplayer-focused games as opposed to story-based titles. Of course, Valve has released video games in recent years. "We sort of had to collectively admit we were wrong on the premise that you will be happiest if you work on something you personally want to work on the most," Valve's Robin Walker says in The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx. It did so by ditching Valve's infamous no managers flat structure - the very same philosophy ex-Valve business development director Jason Holtman discussed with Eurogamer back in 2012. With all these cancelled video games, it's a wonder Valve managed to get itself together to develop and release Half-Life: Alyx. Other cancelled projects include RPG, which was likened to The Elder Scrolls a Minecraft-esque voxel game called A.R.T.I., SimTrek, which was in development by Kerbal Space Program developers (in 2017 Valve quietly hired some of the people who worked on Kerbal Space Program) a Half-Life VR game set on the time-travelling Aperture Science boat Borealis from Half-Life 2 and a mystery Left 4 Dead game purposely codenamed Hot Dog so eagle-eyed fans on the internet wouldn't know it was a Left 4 Dead game. This open-world take on Valve's zombie kill 'em-up also fell by the wayside because it was built on the unfinished Source 2 engine. ![]() Then we have the oft-rumoured Left 4 Dead 3. It was cancelled because it was built on the unfinished Source 2 engine. Half-Life 3 was in development 2013/2014, and was set to be a procedurally-generated, replayable game that fused Left 4 Dead-inspired gameplay with scripted story moments. The highlight is of course Half-Life 3, one of five cancelled Half-Life games worked on in the 13 years between the release of Half-Life: Episode 2 and this year's Half-Life: Alyx. IGN has a tidy roundup of the various cancelled projects. Geoff Keighley's The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx released this week on Steam, and it reveals Valve's failed attempt to make Half-Life 3 - the game boss Gabe Newell would refuse to discuss in interviews. Over the last decade Valve cancelled quite a few video games, and thanks to a recent documentary on the developer, we now have an idea of what exactly fell by the wayside. ![]()
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