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Half Life 3 - Valve says it's being developed!

stuffwelike.com — Not a new episode - a brand new Half-Life game is in the works!

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  • freakon, on 12/13/2007, -21/+300VALVE BEAR MY CHILDREN PLZ
    • Linkage155, on 12/13/2007, -0/+42Google mirror: http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2cof ...
      • Godlike, on 12/13/2007, -0/+16This is all you need and all that it says regarding the the headline:

        TS-SWL: Are there any current plans after Episode 3 to have a Half Life 3?

        DL: We haven’t announced anything specific, but Half-Life won’t end at Episode Three – hang on to your crowbars!
        • antdude, on 12/13/2007, -1/+18The whole thing:

          Half Life 3 WORLD EXCLUSIVE

          As a world exclusive we at StuffWeLike.com have had official confirmation that there will be a Half Life 3.We are not talking about Half Life 2: Episode 3 but a Half Life title after that one.

          Our confirmation comes after taking with Doug Lombardi the guy responsible for all those PR pieces you have seen and read recently about Half Life 2: Episode 2. While discussing the game mechanics that run the Orange Box Portal game the topics of future games came up. These interview pieces are below and we do have permission from Valve to release it to you guys. Even though its not much in terms of details even getting a confirmation that there will be a game is a first!

          Doug Lombardi

          TS-SWL: With the ending of Episode 2 going directly to help the feeling of “must play Episode 3 now” could you give the current estimated date for Episode 3’s release?

          DL: We haven’t announced a date for Ep Three just yet.

          TS-SWL: Are there any current plans after Episode 3 to have a Half Life 3?

          DL: We haven’t announced anything specific, but Half-Life won’t end at Episode Three – hang on to your crowbars!

          TS-SWL: For Portal, can you explain in layman’s terms how the engine allows the mechanics to make it so you can go from one point to another? Does it duplicate the room after a portal location is selected or is it something else?

          DL: A portal is two planar rectangles in 3D space. When both portals are placed we build a mathematical formula that converts position and angle values from one portal to the other. Rendering the portal is done in a separate pass where we use that formula to covert the player’s view position and angles to the view they see through the portal.

          We also generate special collision data to represent the portal hole by grabbing collision data near each portal, combining them, and carving a rectangular whole through the center. When the player is near the portal they use this collision data instead of the standard data, allowing them to pass through the wall. We then use the conversion formula to teleport the player to the proper position after they’ve gone more than halfway through the portal.

          It’s of course a lot more complex than that, but that’s the basic idea.
          • Yodacola, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1[Update #2]

            We would like to mention here that “Half-Life 3″ is speculation, as we only have confirmation that Half-Life 2: Episode 3 will not be the last Half-Life game. It has been confirmed previously that Episode 3 will end the current Half-Life story arc, but not the franchise, nor the episodic medium.

            There is perfect chance that there will be a series of episodic Half-Life games after Episode 3 (but unconnected to the current story arc). Then again, we cannot deny the possibility of a full-fledged title like Half-Life 3. Hell, for all we know, it might even be a prequel!

            [Update]

            We have had a number of comments wanting a confirmation of our sources. While this should not be required, the writing credits of the StuffWeLike.com staff can be confirmed. The writer of this piece Ted Stokes is the main game reviewer for Ireland’s main PC magazine PC Live! In the magazine’s current issue he has an interview with Assassin’s Creed Producer Jade Raymond.

            The Founder and Editor of StuffWeLike.com, David Rodriguez, is known for his contributions to the independent video game community with his indie game publisher Packom Interactive. He has distributed several titles such as Ethereal Darkness Interactive’s Morning’s Wrath and Wadjet Eye Games‘ The Blackwell Legacy.

            StuffWeLike.com was created back in 2002 as a website that dissects and entertains the internet generation.
    • fudsak, on 12/13/2007, -28/+11You may want them to bare your children.
      Bearing them sounds pretty dangerous.
    • lucidapathy, on 12/13/2007, -1/+39I'd hardly say they are developing Half-Life 3. The Quote is "Half-Life won’t end at Episode Three" could mean "we'll have 230948239048 more episodes" or "we'll have one more episode" ... it does not mean there will be a 3.
      • wicketr, on 12/13/2007, -1/+12I agree. What they are basically saying is "Half-Life is a money cow and we are going to keep milking it". They have stated in the past that new features will slowly be introduced through episodic content. They didn't say anything about a "Half-Life 3".
        • Azio, on 12/13/2007, -1/+13Hey as long as the end product remains excellent, I don't care how long or hard they choose to milk their cow. I trust Valve to recognize when the series has run its course.
        • sinthux, on 02/17/2008, -0/+0If you've listened to the beginning commentary on episode 2 (1/7), the developers directly state that episode 3 will be the final conclusion to the existing half-life 2 plot. They could continue the story of freeman and alyx as a team while possibly merging portal into half-life in the meanwhile (seems like they're hinting towards the end video of borealis hence aperture for a further focus into the aperture industry).
      • Ricky8765, on 12/13/2007, -0/+16Valve's milk will always be awesome!
      • LeeSoong, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2What about Portal 2: Return of the Companion Cube ?
    • Rikushix, on 12/13/2007, -1/+20Sure, if you want your children to be scuttling head crabs.
      • Godlike, on 12/13/2007, -1/+4Probably easier to care for and less disappointing tho.
    • Icyfenix, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3I just want them to finish the current plotline!
    • shirosamurai, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8Do you guys really think some podunk little site that can't even keep its server up is going to be breaking Half-Life 3 to the public? The article doesn't even mention Half-Life 3. Furthermore, the submitter has been submitting articles from this same little site over and over - congratulations, because you all just fell into his plan to get a ***** of a traffic to his website.
    • swiftekho, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Actually... You would be baring Valve's children
    • LoneWolfXD, on 06/12/2008, -0/+0Ok now i always say this there will be a episode 3 but Half-life 3 is in the makings episode 1 2 and 3 ARE NOT half-life 3. Now Half-life 3 already has photos out and if you say great more waiting well sorry but good games take time think of half-life 2 great game took a while to make cos its a big game so stop rushing valve they make great games . Now you who have said Episode 3 2 and 1 ARE half-life 3 in chunks well you are really wrong cos Half-life 3 is in making episode 3 is end of HF2 no episode 4 or 5 after episode 3 its a whole new game called ........
      HALF-LIFE 3 GOT IT!
  • theshadowfan, on 12/13/2007, -8/+272If only Valve were a woman instead of a man with a faucet on his head.
  • Braingoo, on 12/13/2007, -7/+633great only 10 more years to wait.
    • GoatBn, on 12/13/2007, -3/+166thats ok...valve took 6 years with HL2 and it ***** changed the way we game. You cant rush quality. When you sit down to load HL3 in 10 years, at least you KNOW it will be mindblowing.
      • liquidjamm, on 12/13/2007, -0/+71I'll be 37 by then; specs will something in the range of 10 cores; 32 GB RAM; 4 Graphics cards.
        • peagle, on 12/13/2007, -1/+39I think you underestimate RAM growth for 10 years, and you can already have 4 graphics cards.
        • Sabretou, on 12/13/2007, -2/+35Let us not forget DirectX 16 compatibility and Windows exclusivity here.
          • superal1394, on 12/13/2007, -1/+11I'm thinkin OpenGL by then

            they DID hire some one to port games to it...
          • Ricky8765, on 12/13/2007, -0/+16Ahhh the water effects of DX 16
        • mrjit, on 12/13/2007, -0/+25I'd think by then we can stuff enough onto a wafer to not require 4 cards. I really hope that's the case.
        • ToadLeg, on 12/13/2007, -1/+32In 10 years it will be near the end of 2017 - and if processors double their cores every 1.5 years that will be 6 doublings, and we have 4 cores now, so I'll put my immaginary money on there being closer to 256 cores by then, and with that many cores the graphics cards will probably be integrated to just use a few of them (GPU cores are entirely different than CPU cores however, so it won't be easy - the CPU will have to look radically different). Do the same calculations on RAM and you get the same 256 GB of RAM. The way optical computers are going we will probably have some prototype optical CPUs and quantum modules will probably be where optical is today.

          If that sounds extreme, think that the PSP, with it's 333 Mhz processor, would have been fast for a PC 10 years ago.
          • mulletmusketeer, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1For most of the history of personal computing, processor cores have not doubled every 1.5 years. The switch to dual core made a huge difference for multitasking, which was very useful for anyone; your grandma could appreciate the difference. Quad cores have been embraced by enthusiasts, but mainstream computing has little use for them yet, in my opinion. I would say that the very brief 1.5 year doubling will not continue over ten years.... maybe something more likely is add a core every 1.5 years.
          • Gizza, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2I think buy that time graphics cards will be obsolete. Everything will be using ray tracing. Intel have already demonstrated real time ray tracing on a dual quad core system running at 1280x1024 at 60fps without a graphics card and the lighting and shadows looked better than anything in any current game (though the textures and polygon count weren't that great).
        • g30ph, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7But in 10 years all of that computer power will come in the form of a wrist watch and it will have a blue tooth connection to the virtual reality glasses and you wont actually touch anything, it will interpret signals from your brain.
        • spawnfree, on 12/13/2007, -3/+44One terrabyte of ram.
          and windows FU edition will use 70% of that for icons.
          • RoboDonut, on 12/13/2007, -1/+28That's not a problem!
            2017 is sure to be the "Year of the Linux Desktop"!
            (Just like 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, etc.)
        • Ndiggnation, on 12/13/2007, -1/+11In 10 years, I better have my Cyberpunk input jacks..
        • Azuroth, on 12/13/2007, -0/+23And with ALL the things posters above me have said, we'll still be waiting on Duke Nukem.
        • kokuei, on 12/13/2007, -5/+5No one is waiting for Duke Nukem anymore. It's a bigger joke than Daikatana ever was.
      • Technophobia, on 12/13/2007, -21/+5What did they change? Better graphics? They didn't really add anything new besides taking more ideas from the community and acting like it was their own. A "Zero-Point Energy Field Manipulator" like device already existed in a HL1 mod called Entmod. The MOD had a star Trek phaser and it let you move anything in the level. I guess you could say it was the Garys mod before Garys mod ever existed. Really the whole HL2 game was built off the popularity of the HL1 and they will take "10 years" because they have to search the Internet for other peoples ideas. Thats my OPINION.
        • Feanor, on 12/13/2007, -1/+23Physics engine
          • GoatBn, on 12/13/2007, -3/+13you are absolutly right about the Physics, but there was more than that. Just look at the cinematic nature of the game. The ingame cutscenes. SO many games are doing that now, which I call "HL2 inspired games"...for example Call of Duty 4.

            It changed the way we use items in a game, it changed the plot presentation, for the first time I became emotionally involved with the characters in the game, it even changed the way we obtain our games (steam)...etc.

            HL1 and HL2 both had a significant impact on the way we play FPS. HL3 will live up to that reputation, i am sure.
          • Technophobia, on 12/14/2007, -1/+2Never done before ever in video game history. Didn't Doom 3 come out before HL2 and UT2003 before that. The physics engine wasn't even valves to begin with.
        • Gerz1219, on 12/13/2007, -1/+11Are you the sort of person who claims Shakespeare is overrated? If Half-Life 2 isn't one of the best games ever created, then what is? I'm genuinely curious to hear your answer.
          • Loonacy, on 12/13/2007, -4/+12HL2 is one of the best games ever, and Shakespeare is VERY overrated.
          • Ricky8765, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2Most literature after Shakespeare borrows HEAVILY from his plays and their themes.
        • norsurfit, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3Did Shakespeare write HL2? I'm confused...
        • Knucklecallus, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Yeah? Well, I HATE your opinion!
          rabble rabble rabble
      • Cerebral, on 12/13/2007, -12/+2So you're telling me that Starcraft 2 will just blow everyone's mind and that when it comes out Duke Nukem Forever will make every game before it look like a Tiger electronics gaming station. Love the logic.
        In all seriousness it shouldn't take them THAT long to develop a game. How long did it take for the Crysis engine to be built? That's all you need is the engine as I would guess the story is already written. So Engine + 2 or so years for game dev. If that's 10 years then damn... just damn.
        • Shakermaker, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5"So you're telling me that Starcraft 2 will just blow everyone's mind and that when it comes out Duke Nukem Forever will make every game before it look like a Tiger electronics gaming station. Love the logic."

          No, because Starcraft and DNF aren't being developed by Valve
        • Azio, on 12/13/2007, -3/+3Valve delivers quality gaming every time.
        • Pake, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2Cerebral, VALVe took 6 years to upgrade their old engine. A lot of the old Quake 1 and 2 code was used in HL2 and the physics engine is a SLIGHTLY modified Havok 2.0 engine. They developed very little of the source engine. What took them to 6 years to upgrade took Epic and ID Software only 3 years to completely build from start to finish. Unless they buy someone else's engine like they did for HL1, don't expect the game for another 6 years minimal and 10 years if you expect minimal bugs.
      • antdude, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Wasn't there an one year delay due to the hack to the source code server and online security breach?
        • norsurfit, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5Sort of, but everyone pretty roundly agrees that Valve really just used that breach as an excuse to delay because the core product wasn't quite ready by the deadline that they were shooting for. Of course, I'd rather have a delayed masterpiece - like HL2- than an early, buggy program.
      • Trav3133, on 12/13/2007, -11/+3Change the way we game? What are you talking about, it didn't do anything all that spectacular. It was a fun FPS with no replay.
      • Pake, on 12/13/2007, -6/+1You can't rush quality, but VALVe games don't fall into quality if you are talking about bugs. Or should I say "features?"
    • macweirdo42, on 12/13/2007, -1/+41lol true... People forget that this whole "one release a year" thing with the episodic content is actually one helluva improvement for Valve.
      • peagle, on 12/13/2007, -0/+15Actually they said one episode every 6 months was the idea, which was clearly a vain hope of theirs.
    • lul101, on 12/13/2007, -17/+12I thought episodes 1,2,3 were going to be Half-life 3.....
      • kanuk20, on 12/13/2007, -5/+9That was never their intention. They said that the episodes were building up to HL3.
        • Phil1ip123, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8Where did they say this? Source please.
        • jftaylor21, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=65 ...
        • kanuk20, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1"Gabe Newell: The original Half-Life took us two years to develop. With a considerably larger team Half-Life 2 took us six years to develop, so we thought if we were going to continue our trend with Half-Life 3 we would basically ship after we had all retired.
          We're trying to come up with a better way of getting more timely updates to our customers and also come up with something that didn't have the complexities. Projects increased logarithmically with how much we tried to do, so if you tried to put twice as much content or technology into a box it ends up taking you four times the amount of work, right, and so we're trying to figure out a better solution."

          Quoted from the article above. TY JFTaylor21

          I read something a little more specific somewhere, but this gives the gist of what I remember.
      • mortey, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6I remember them saying that too lul101.
        • Immune, on 12/14/2007, -1/+5But we're going to digg him down and you up, cause thats how we roll.
      • Yeknom, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Yeah, thats what doug said to pc gamer
    • ferrariman60, on 12/13/2007, -11/+4Update! It's been pushed back.... you gotta wait 12 years now.
    • drakethegreat, on 12/13/2007, -8/+7Spoken like someone who knows jack crap about how much work goes into 3D engines and games.
    • RoboDonut, on 12/13/2007, -0/+26Wait guys!
      That's only one year in Valve Time™
    • AzureRise, on 12/13/2007, -2/+0Well, if it'll really be released in 10 years, you can play Duke Nukem Forever meanwhile. I hear it's really close to completion!
  • anTii, on 12/13/2007, -7/+102Will there be Alyx?
    • Pr0v0st, on 12/13/2007, -37/+7No, she dies at the end of episode 3.
    • geekanarchy, on 12/13/2007, -15/+25I may be alone in this, but I hope not. I really enjoyed the solo exploration feel of Half-Life more than the partner hand-holding aspects of HL2.
      • superal1394, on 12/13/2007, -16/+4You sir are an idiot. I find combat much more enjoyable with Alyx. It allows for completely new dimensions of attacks to be thrown at you without making you tear your hair out, brings in new ways to destroy enemies, and brings companionship to the sometimes very isolated chapters.
        • Phil1ip123, on 12/13/2007, -2/+22Yeah, he's an idiot because he has an opinion.
        • knifesideleft, on 12/13/2007, -4/+2So I'm guessing you are upset because in his opinion he's an idiot?
    • Chazx, on 12/13/2007, -17/+3Yeah... I hope not as well. Bitch...
    • g30ph, on 12/13/2007, -5/+41Of course there will be Alyx, and you will be following her up ladders for at least half of the game. And her jeans will be more low cut and you will see her G-String sticking out.
      • drpcken, on 12/13/2007, -1/+44I told her what time it was.
      • m00nmaster, on 12/13/2007, -6/+18Half Life 3:Hot Coffee Edition
        • AzureRise, on 12/13/2007, -2/+0Hm, already been done. There's a nude mod out there. Not that I've used it, I still haven't started Half Life 1...
    • welliamwallace, on 12/13/2007, -3/+18Yeah, but she will be 49 years old and wrinkly
    • ChinkInMyArmor, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7With Shader 4.0 realtime wrinkles!
  • Jenovaside, on 12/13/2007, -2/+77Lets hope they follow one line from the portal song-"we're releasing on time"
    Somehow I doubt it. Still its better to have the game finished and late then rushed.
    • Sabretou, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7Well, if we go by that, there will also be a beta for the game! :D
      • benbrooks101, on 12/13/2007, -0/+13Every game has a beta. Just not a public one.
    • BevansDesign, on 12/13/2007, -0/+8They can release it on time if they don't announce a release date until it's finished. :)
    • Mejogid, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7Actually, I really don't even hope they do. IMO, the reason Valve's games are so consistently excellent is that they don't make any compromises - they make the best game they can, regardless of the cost. In fact, I'd rather see more developers take this attitude rather than dump a rushed product on the market.
      • iamaelephant, on 12/13/2007, -2/+2There's no reason you can't make an accurate estimate on the release of even a very complex project.
  • CaffeinePowered, on 12/13/2007, -4/+319hmmm.....I wonder how long this is going to take

    http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
    • unicronband, on 12/13/2007, -3/+39I don't care how long it takes, as long as the portal gun is a weapon.
      • funkydude101, on 12/13/2007, -1/+29It's not a weapon. Rather a sign of femininity, and the birthing canal. Or so I'm told.
      • chedabob, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2The portal gun would be awesome. Firing the AI into other AI would be hilarious.
        • superal1394, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6ffllaammph *Portal appears in ceiling* ffflaamph *Portal appears under approaching enemy*

          *enemy falls into portal, drops onto other incoming enemies, killing both*
      • gn0stik, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Man, that would have been nice in some of those turret situations in HL2. It probably would have made the game too easy though.
      • idslite, on 12/14/2007, -1/+1There's already a mod (hack I should say) for this, look it up :). I haven't tried it yet, but it looked fun.
    • DiggerT, on 12/13/2007, -2/+20well however long it takes, I bet it'll be out before duke nukem forever.
  • navster15, on 12/13/2007, -17/+5Considering how much Gabe Newell has been raving about episodic content, I'd bet that Half Life 3 (Half Life 4 by Mr. Newell's reckoning) will be released episodically.
    • chris9902, on 12/13/2007, -5/+2Half-Life is anything but episodic. Just because they call it that doesn't make it so. They are expansion packs.
      • bagboyrebel, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4expansion packs require the original game to be installed, since this is not the case they are episodes.
        • Sabretou, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Unless they are standalone expansion packs, like Blue Shift. ;)
    • vdog, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2They said they'd do three episodes then evaluate whether to continue down that path or not. HL3 may or may not be episodic.
    • Ricky8765, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Gabe has stated that the episodes in Half Life 2 are basically HL3, he just didn't want people to wait 4 or 5 more years for the sequel
  • opie_wan, on 12/13/2007, -5/+132"TS-SWL: Are there any current plans after Episode 3 to have a Half Life 3?

    DL: We haven’t announced anything specific, but Half-Life won’t end at Episode Three – hang on to your crowbars!"

    I don't see him confirming HL3 in this statement...he is just saying that episode 3 is not the end of Half Life....he could just be referring to episode 4...
    • FeargusMcDuff, on 12/13/2007, -0/+32No. They've already said that the series of episodic half life games will end at half life episode 3.
      • Balanced, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7I thought I read somewhere that Episode 3 was jsut the end of that 'story arc' and 4-? would be a new story arc?
        • superal1394, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3end of the HL2 story arc, meaning new baddies will be introduced, and a new problem to solve

          perhaps finally throwing off the G-Man?
        • Nekiruhs, on 02/16/2008, -0/+1@superal: I hope so, i thought it meant new main characters, eg. no gordon, no alyx. That gives me hope.
    • ferrariman60, on 12/13/2007, -2/+4They say that the end of ep 3 will be the end of the current story arc. HL3 will start a new story set in the same universe, some speculating that it could use the woman from portal. That'd be cool with me!
    • Rikushix, on 12/13/2007, -0/+9Feargus is right, they've said specifically that the episodic series is supposed to be a trilogy. Matter of fact, the episodic series is really Half Life "3" broken into three parts - Gabe has said several times that this was really the spiritual Half Life 3, only chunked into a trilogy of smaller games since the development of HL2 took bloody forever.
    • Cerebral, on 12/13/2007, -3/+2Maybe he meant a spin-off or an RTS?
    • Gollem, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1mirror:
      http://www.battleballgame.net/StuffWeLike_Half_Lif ...
  • DarkSamus, on 12/13/2007, -27/+12hmm bla bla bla wake up mr gordon bla bla bla
  • BrandonMills, on 12/13/2007, -32/+1Episode 4 and 5 were confirmed a few months back, with Episode 4 being contracted out to a third-party publisher. So um, news?
    • FreDre, on 12/13/2007, -1/+18Sources or you're talking from your ass (I bet it's the later)
      • Feanor, on 12/13/2007, -8/+2I bet is the latter. :-P
      • BrandonMills, on 12/13/2007, -6/+1Glad you guys made me think for a moment I was crazy. At first, Googling for the story I knew I saw once turned up jack squat. However, turns out, not-so-much.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_2#Expansion ...

        I knew I read something about that on the web. I'm fairly sure I saw something about Episode 5 returning to being under Valve, but since I can't find it and don't feel like digging it up right now, I'll just say I was half-wrong, but that's far from 'talking out my ass'.

        Anyhow, not like you guys took the time to even try to look :) Oh well, easier to hit the Digg Down button I guess.

        "It was confirmed in April 2006 that Half-Life 2: Episode Four was in production, and that it would mark the start of a new story arc. Furthermore, it was confirmed that Episode Four was under development by a third-party studio under Valve Corporation's supervision.[58]"
        • FreDre, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2Stop trying because you keep failing. There's no source of that information in wikipedia.
        • Dracusis, on 12/14/2007, -3/+2Can you not read?

          It's there in plain black and white under the "Expansions and modifications" subheading, the one that Brandon linked to, and it's referenced from here:

          http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1 ...

          I'm constantly amazed by how retarded some Digg users are.
  • alexdemers, on 12/13/2007, -4/+96Holy *****! Look at those graphics!
    • joegibes, on 12/13/2007, -0/+11Personally, I think they need to be tightened up around level three...
  • Weip, on 12/13/2007, -17/+7Already waiting Counter-Strike 3.0.
  • 1jaxstate1, on 12/13/2007, -37/+6How about valve doing something completely new. I've had my fun with HL games, and they were fun. But it's time to move on. Give me something new and refreshing.
  • heartless_, on 12/13/2007, -2/+55Episode or new game, it does not matter. Personally, I love the current engine.
    • MutatedNantuko, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2It's holding up incredibly well.
    • Gizza, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3No other engine since (including the Cry Engine) has got facial models and animations as good as the Source Engine.
  • KnightMareInc, on 12/13/2007, -54/+3another overrated game hyped to death, I cant wait.
    • valkyries, on 12/13/2007, -7/+2dude its HL you'll never be disappointed, the only bad(only because it was way to short) halflife related game was made by a third-party(gearbox) dev team.
    • krisscofield, on 12/13/2007, -3/+11Since when did HL2 get any more hype than by word of mouth and maybe a commercial or two??
  • orangester, on 12/13/2007, -10/+2Now I must wait 5 years for the opening train ride sequence?
    It's definitely great news, but dissapointing we will have to wait so long for another addition to the already amazing franchise.
  • Abominous, on 12/13/2007, -8/+1Awesome
  • GoatBn, on 12/13/2007, -10/+3No ***** they are working on HL3...they probably have been since HL2 was released, maybe even before that.
    • BenKenobi88, on 12/13/2007, -1/+4No, they haven't. They've been making the HL2 Episodes one by one building off the Source engine. They're currently working on Episode 3, using their whole team. They could start a HL3 sometime in there, but it'd be on a new engine, and it wouldn't be out for years...if there was a HL3, I'd put it at 2010 at best.
    • CWal37, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Half life 3 does not equal episode three, it far exceeds it. That's the point
    • GoatBn, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1They have not been making episodes one by one. Do some reading...look up gabe newell interviews from before episode 1. They have always had multiple teams always working on multiple projects. Episode 2 was in development at the same time as episode 1.

      Its not far fetched to think that valve is dedicating resources to HL3...
  • reuscel, on 12/13/2007, -15/+955 diggs, server dead. Awesome.
  • alexanEmpire, on 12/13/2007, -4/+51BRING BACK ADRIAN SHEPARD!
    • csl110, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8Best expansion EVER
    • MutatedNantuko, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Seriously, I want more alien goo grenade launchers.
  • FreDre, on 12/13/2007, -9/+105"This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota" is going to be amazing
  • dukenuk3m, on 12/13/2007, -12/+359 diggs to suspend the account! need a mirror.
  • baaron, on 12/13/2007, -15/+12Mirror please...
  • Alphateam, on 12/13/2007, -11/+52No ***** .... they are going to make a sequel to a highly successful game?
    Who would have thought....Half Life 2....then.....Half Life 3....how do they come up with that? Simply amazing.
    /s
    • CWal37, on 12/13/2007, -10/+4Half life 3 does not equal episode three, it far exceeds it. That's the point
    • Rickler, on 12/13/2007, -6/+1CTRL+F type:"no *****" *click green thumb*
    • Mikhail101, on 12/13/2007, -4/+1they intially said they were ending it at half-life 2 episode 3
  • bigfinger, on 12/13/2007, -2/+18Best news I heard all year in gaming!
  • TherealObadiah, on 12/13/2007, -10/+3I loved HL 1 & 2, but I'm not sure which will be first, HL3 or the Duke Nukem Forever.
  • Farmer77, on 12/13/2007, -7/+2Cool, hope it doesn't take a super high end graphics card to play it.
    • Recluse, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7Well since it will probably be out around 2010, it will, if you go by the standards of today.
  • razorc03, on 12/13/2007, -2/+57Due, to Valve's track record with schedules, my grand children will be the ones to enjoy this game.
    • MalDON, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2But it's well worth the wait. Unless most game developers, they actually patch problems in a very timely manner.
    • gavintlgold, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7Due to mandatory scheduled maintenance, the next version of Half-Life is currently unavailable. It has been replaced with a live-fire course designed for military androids. The Enrichment Center apologizes and wishes you the best of luck.
    • iofthestorm, on 12/14/2007, -3/+1Due, to latent grammar nazi tendencies, I am posting this comment.
      • LogitechG15, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1No, you're are posting that comment because you need to get laid.
  • Gugel, on 12/13/2007, -8/+2All I could find was this: http://www.gamershell.com/news/18665.html
    • phoenixp3k, on 12/13/2007, -6/+1SPOILER ALERT: Alyx DOES NOT DIE at the end of Half-Life 2: Episode 3
    • ScoobyG, on 12/13/2007, -0/+8This is from 2004.
  • Nobiting, on 12/13/2007, -9/+2THANK YOU GOD!
  • FishHammer, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1682015 will be a great year for gaming
    • justinjacobs, on 12/13/2007, -4/+32016 will then be the year of gaming on the Linux Desktop.
  • shegs, on 12/13/2007, -12/+10totally bogus... there is no confirmation of a HL3, just content after ep3
    dumb
    • mishsquish, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Why digg this man down, he speaks the truth? From that bit of interview that I've read, it just seems like this article is completely over-hyping further HL content.
  • heartcoldfusion, on 12/13/2007, -5/+35Such a bunch of whiners. The people who are bitching about how long it takes Valve to release a game are the same assholes who bitch and moan about how ***** every game released today is because they're all rushed out to make money.
    • phoenixp3k, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5I'm happy they announced it today, this mean I can expect Half-Life 3 to be released for Christmas 2011. We'll might get Episode 3 for Christmas 2009 (a nice 2 year cycle)
    • mustbepatient, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1I think the comments are funny, not whining. Valve makes fun of themselves with this, after all (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time ... as in another comment).
    • vsthsd, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Well said dude.
    • PhaseSix, on 12/14/2007, -0/+0id rather wait for a good game rather than play a crappy half assed game.
  • Rozal0, on 12/13/2007, -1/+37Doug Lombardi

    TS-SWL: With the ending of Episode 2 going directly to help the feeling of “must play Episode 3 now” could you give the current estimated date for Episode 3’s release?

    DL: We haven’t announced a date for Ep Three just yet.

    TS-SWL: Are there any current plans after Episode 3 to have a Half Life 3?

    DL: We haven’t announced anything specific, but Half-Life won’t end at Episode Three – hang on to your crowbars!

    TS-SWL: For Portal, can you explain in layman’s terms how the engine allows the mechanics to make it so you can go from one point to another? Does it duplicate the room after a portal location is selected or is it something else?

    DL: A portal is two planar rectangles in 3D space. When both portals are placed we build a mathematical formula that converts position and angle values from one portal to the other. Rendering the portal is done in a separate pass where we use that formula to covert the player’s view position and angles to the view they see through the portal.

    We also generate special collision data to represent the portal hole by grabbing collision data near each portal, combining them, and carving a rectangular whole through the center. When the player is near the portal they use this collision data instead of the standard data, allowing them to pass through the wall. We then use the conversion formula to teleport the player to the proper position after they’ve gone more than halfway through the portal.

    It’s of course a lot more complex than that, but that’s the basic idea.
    • MerryMortician, on 12/13/2007, -2/+19oh yeah.. those are layman's terms.
    • theotherbastard, on 12/13/2007, -1/+14Yes. Now could you put THAT in layman's terms?
      • GhostFreeman, on 12/13/2007, -0/+31Speedy things goes in, speedy things come out
      • AzureRise, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Portal creates a path to the other end of the other portal. Physics are calculated seperately for each portal location. When you're half way through the portal, the physics of the area of the second portal take over.
    • NessTheHero, on 12/13/2007, -6/+1I understand it.

      Basically you see what you should see through the other portal in your portal. You're basically going through the wall with the background pasted around you so it looks like you're seamlessly passing through. Then, when you are halfway through, you are seamlessly teleported to the other portal.
      • Hoov, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7Is that what a portal does? Really? No fooling?
    • Ragzouken, on 12/13/2007, -3/+1'build a mathematical formula'? They make a simple transformation sound so technical.
    • iamaelephant, on 12/13/2007, -2/+1I'm not even sure why he asked that question, it seems pretty obvious how it works. Something enters the portal (planar rectangle) and his velocity/position/animation data are translated to the other portal.
    • Isstasi, on 12/13/2007, -2/+6Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out
    • Gollem, on 12/13/2007, -0/+0mirror:
      http://www.battleballgame.net/StuffWeLike_Half_Lif ...
  • baldgye, on 12/13/2007, -6/+2I'm pretty sure (untill u get the link fixed) that ep3 is coming out.
  • pauleku, on 12/13/2007, -5/+6Well, Im not expecting it until somewhere around 2013, but hey. Lest just forget "episodic content" since it never worked. The games were good, but EPISODIC means something is released on a regular basis, not maybe every 3-4 years.
    • Icecream, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8Interesting, Since half life 2 came out in 2004, and its now 2007 and two episodes have been released.
      • Maciula, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Yes interesting indeed. Especially that they initially announced "episodic content" will be coming out every 6 months. But in "Valve Time" 6m equals 1yr.
        • kanuk20, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1You can't blame them for delays, you should be happy there is or we'd be getting EA/Atari quality games, where anything goes.
    • kanuk20, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2You can't justify a basis with only two episodes. Besides, EP1 came out practically one year prior to EP2. I imagine that they have been working on EP3 for some time now, and HL3 has been in the works since HL2. One development cycle doesn't start when another ends, its an overlapping process. I believe Doug L. said that episodic content was to help develop the technology needed for HL3.
    • markperia, on 12/13/2007, -2/+2but the world is ending on 2012...
      • curiousgeorge1, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1yea another supporter of the ancient alien theory
    • ninja0, on 12/13/2007, -3/+1You, sir, are retarded.
  • yoinkdigg, on 12/13/2007, -46/+3Too bad the first two were over hyped pieces of crap, including portal.
    • Dunge, on 12/13/2007, -3/+14HL2 is nearly the only hyped game that lived it's expectations...
    • HelloNavi, on 12/13/2007, -2/+20You're either a troll, or a complete and utter idiot.
      • yoinkdigg, on 12/13/2007, -13/+1Yes, because when people play a ***** game.. they can't NOT like it because it's *****. There has to be an underlying reason. Wait... no.
        • FreDre, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2And you keep posting trying to make.. What point exactly?
        • macweirdo42, on 12/13/2007, -1/+3Because the games are clearly not *****. You either like them or you don't, but there's no question that the games themselves are technical masterpieces. It's like me and Halo - I absolutely cannot stand Halo, but that doesn't make Halo a ***** game, and I'd be a retard to say otherwise.
      • MerryMortician, on 12/13/2007, -1/+3what's the difference?
      • chsbrgr, on 12/13/2007, -1/+4Don't fear, Gordon - she's debeaked and completely harmless.
    • CalipsoII, on 12/13/2007, -1/+16I'm not even angry.
      I'm being so sincere right now.
    • Sabretou, on 12/13/2007, -3/+2First two, including Portal? Which is the first game you are referring to, then?
    • theotherbastard, on 12/13/2007, -1/+9Portal killed your puppy, didn't it?
  • jerrycan, on 12/13/2007, -6/+0Can`t wait for episode 3 to be "Unleashed".
    • danwallace, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1I am also looking "forward" to it.
  • frostbyt, on 12/13/2007, -38/+3Yeah! Another poorly made game. With the same thing over and over and over...
  • TheOdinson, on 12/13/2007, -13/+3Come up with a new game please. Not that I didn't enjoy Half-Life/Half-Life 2, but gamers need more variety. In 10 years I don't want to be playing GoW 5, and Halo 7, I want to be playing something new and exciting with, I don't know, plot and maybe character development.
    • Cerebral, on 12/13/2007, -1/+1I'd love to be playing GoW5 :)
    • petebot, on 12/13/2007, -1/+5How about:
      mass effect
      heavenly sword
      bioshock
      uncharted
      alan wake
      too human
      brutal legend
      infinite undiscovery
    • PandarenLord, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Oh what, did Half-Life 2 and Episodes 1 and 2 not have "plot and character development?" I'll have to disagree with you there... ever heard of Judith Mossman? Or Eli Vance?
      • BenKenobi88, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3Garden Gnome? Cmon, best new character.
  • TjLAXattack, on 12/13/2007, -14/+3Still calling it Half Life though? You'd think at the third game, they'd call it Full Life. Or at the very least Two-Thirds Life.
    • undershirt, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8Wow you suck at math.
    • Sabretou, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3Holy hell, you suck.
    • saltinekracka20, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1I'll give you credit for trying.
    • NaziHatinChimp, on 12/13/2007, -1/+1I'll digg your lame joke.
    • Wartz, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1dude, it would be 1.5 life total, or half life x3
    • schnikies79, on 12/13/2007, -1/+1I had a reply, but this post is just too dumb. There is no point.
  • eastlondoner, on 12/13/2007, -5/+15What? Are you crazy? They are going to release another sequel to the best game series ever made ever? This cannot be true!
    • HauntedTank, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2I´m as surprised as You are! Why are they continuing the series that made them so much money? It just doesn´t make sense!
      • ninja0, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2hey, sometimes they kill off games that make them a lot of money :P
  • orb_nsc, on 12/13/2007, -2/+1I know it's fun to make fun of their long delays in releasing software, but they're on the record as saying that they're quite happy with the Source engine, and will be developing on it in the future (and making improvements to it along the way). Since they're not going to redesign a new engine like they did for Half Life 2, it would stand to reason that it won't take 6 years to produce the next game.
  • Ghoztt, on 12/13/2007, -29/+5Sorry, but after the revolutionary game which was Half Life 1, I was very much let down by Half Life 2. And even more so by the following episodes.
    Valve doesn't have anything new up their sleeves from what I've been experiencing. Gravity Gun? Sorry, I didn't cream my pants over it. Glorified Hostage Rescue story of HL2? I'll pass. Jack and squat of a drawn out story where Valve constantly beats around the bush? Well, until Valve starts answering some ***** questions about the HL universe I won't be buying HL3.

    It almost seems like they accidentally created this awesome storyline in the original, then figured out they could ***** (intelligent) gamers over by making one new weapon, retardedly simple physics puzzles, and simply milking some drawn out story for as much cash as they can. Digg me down, it's cool. It's just that I've got gray hair now guys. I'm the first real hardcore gamer old guy generation. I've seen it all and valve ain't showing me nothing other than an above average FPS.
  • MacDork, on 12/13/2007, -8/+3In other news, air found important to human survival.
  • nibus, on 12/13/2007, -8/+23Hopefully Gordon will finally get some action in this one
    • ninja0, on 12/13/2007, -0/+9oh yeah. nude scenes!?
    • tdous, on 12/13/2007, -6/+1Eeek. No sex please. You're upsetting the Diggers.
    • PawtucketPat, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2With no Eli around to protect poor vulnerable Alyx, I think it might happen this time.
      • naganooch, on 12/13/2007, -0/+10I think it was Eli who first suggested it!
      • Scrappy1850, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6i think he mentioned it twice... cheeky old bastard.
    • Jereso, on 12/13/2007, -5/+2Or a speaking role.
      • Isstasi, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4And here we see Jereso turning "missing the point" into an artform
    • justinjacobs, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5Or at least get that beer from Barney.
  • ramshaw, on 12/13/2007, -11/+8Erm.....Valve have said in the past that Episodes 1,2 and 3 are what Half-Life 3 would have been.
    • ninja0, on 12/13/2007, -4/+2valve HAS said in the past....
      • lacronicus, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5he has correct grammar from where he's from. The british, if I understand it correctly, have corporations take the plural, where Americans have them take the singular. Take the time to ask questions of people rather than simply assume they're wrong.
        • SatansMagicHat, on 12/13/2007, -2/+2Or you could just not take the time to reply to stupid comments.
          *****, I just did.
        • 1town, on 12/13/2007, -4/+3I believe the correct reply would have been "Learn some proper english, ***** yank"
          • ninja0, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1I believe you would also be wrong then. no yank here muffin cakes ;)
      • Beto0707, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1His comment don't make no kind of sense anyways...
  • xkrwlng, on 12/13/2007, -13/+3HL3 will be the greatest game. ever.
    • danwallace, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8I'm fairly certain it will cure AIDS. Not just HIV, but full-blown AIDS.
  • boxoman, on 12/13/2007, -5/+3Honestly, I didn't like Half Life 2 at all. I played the original and loved it, but when number 2 was released years later, I was not impressed. In the time between HL1 and HL2, there were a ton of FPS released. Then when HL2 came out, I just didn't think they did enough to compete in this now flooded genre. It took forever to get anywhere in the story, and i found myself asking "why the hell am i still running around shooting monsters?" I am not a game critic, but I don't think Half Life 2 was innovative. Sure, it had cool physics, some cool monsters, but other than that I was disappointed. I think portal is great, and i think TF2 and CS source are great, but I just can't get excited about the Half Life series anymore.

    Just to give you some reference, I am a very picky gamer. I lose interest very quickly in a game if its anything short of amazing. There are very few games that i have ever beaten, including F.E.A.R., Warcraft 3, and a handful of others. I can give you a list of about 30 games in every genre that i have played and never beaten because i lose interest.
    • Cerebral, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1I'm sorry but all this talk about needing games to be AMAZING and the first game you listed that you have beaten is F.E.A.R.? Hard to take anything serious after reading that.
    • halflife9987, on 06/16/2008, -0/+0PORTAL ARE YOU ***** ME? THAT GAME WAS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER PLAYED JESUS I WOULD RETHER GET SHOT THAN BUY A GAME LIKE THAT AGAON AND TEAM FORTRESS IS GAY AS HELL TOO. HALF LIFE 2 PWNES EVERY GAME EVER MADE ACCEP CRYSIS. I HAVE OVER 200 PC GAMES AND HALF LIFE 2 IS THE BEST. CEREBRAL IS RIGHT FEAR IS THE LEAST AMAZING GAME IN THE WORLD THE STORY BLOWS COW BALLS. HALF LIFE 2 RULLS AND YOU SIRE ARE A FAG IF YOU DONT AGREE.
  • satori3000, on 12/13/2007, -7/+2well it's a dead link, but I love how the usage limit notice doesn't refer to bandwidth, it says that you've exceeded your CPU limit... who the hell has a CPU limit on a website?
    • boxoman, on 12/13/2007, -2/+1you can have unlimited bandwidth, and awesome speed, but if your server is running on a Pentium 2 and its getting hammered, it can only handle so many requests. or the hosting service may have set a lilmit
    • Cerebral, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1People who don't host their own *****.
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