A source from Valve with supposed inside info has said that both Half-Life 3 and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 have been started and scrapped multiple times, and they will likely never see release. The source gave an anonymous interview to GameInformer, saying “there is no such thing as Half-Life 3. Valve has never announced a Half-Life 3.”

Much of this comes from the way Valve approaches employee creativity; the source pointed out that three different versions of

Half-Life 2 were ready to produce before the final version was created. Some of these projects have been in the works since as early as 2005, with team sizes ranging from two or three people all the way up to 30-40 employees before being scrapped.

“Some are all over the place, from one end of the spectrum being what you would expect – a single-player narrative-focused game – to completely different entertainment ideas that are as wild as they are weird. Some were bizarre, like turning Half-Life into an RTS, or a live-action, choice-driven game.”

— Anonymous Valve source

The source also said that

HL2:E3 “isn’t sitting right with Valve president Gabe Newell and other people at Valve. Ultimately it just starves to death. What you have left is nothing going on with Half-Life. I don’t think there will be any more. Every time a Half-Life project gets some gravity and then collapses, it becomes harder for the next one to start up.”

Personally, I think the fans should make their own

Half-Life 3 with everything we expect of it in it. What do you think should happen with Valve’s most valuable IP? Let us know below!

Source: GameInformer

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