Half-Life 3 is not just in development, but it’s now “playable, end-to-end”.
That’s according to Valve insider Tyler McVicker, who posits the eagerly-anticipated sequel could be announced as early as this summer (Q3), with a possible release before the end of 2025, probably winter (Q4).
We already had strong evidence – if no specific confirmation – that Valve is once again working on a major new Half-Life project of some kind, codenamed HLX, with a trustworthy report last summer detailing datamined assets and code snippets backing up a leak from an actor likely involved.
I’ll go into some of the details after the video embedded below, but please be mindful there may be spoilers for this new game…
As first reported by Engadget, McVicker gave a livestreamed Q&A packed with explosive clues and hints about what’s to come, and he has once again stressed: “The game is not VR. Half Life 3 is not a VR title.”
“HLX is being playtested so religiously and so widely that there are individuals who will just talk,” McVicker said. “I personally have a policy of avoiding any story-related questions or information wherever possible, so I currently have avoided all of them. But I’ve been offered it by people whom are trustworthy and I know some of my contemporaries have been given it so there is information out there about the plot…”