
For clarity’s sake, that doesn’t mean that there will never be a Half-Life 3, it just means that specific project won’t see the light of day. Last week, Geoff Keighley’s extensive Half-Life: Alyx – Final Hours report revealed that several Half-Life games had been cancelled over the years, including an iteration of the long-requested Half-Life 3 that would’ve combined procedural generation and the standard Half-Life formula to make the game more replayable, but this particular version of the sequel was canned. Statistically, not that many people are going to be able to play the game as they lack the necessary hardware, but the game is apparently pretty dang good and after 13 years, Valve has done something with the Half-Life universe after Half-Life 2: Episode Two.īut despite the series’ relative silence for nearly a decade and a half, Valve has been doing a lot of weird, Half-Life promotional crossovers, and given that the series has yet to truly be “brought back” in earnest, it’s starting to feel a bit disingenuous.

To Valve’s credit, the company did finally release a Half-Life game with Half-Life: Alyx, a VR spin-off starring fan favorite Alyx Vance.
