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Half-Life 3 2026 Leak Has Gamers Losing Their Minds Again
The newest Half-Life 3 leak has gamers absolutely losing their minds, and it proves that hope is still alive after countless disappointments.
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Valve veteran imperiously scorns reports that it's secretly finished Half-Life 3 and moving devs to other projects: 'They've been done for months! They just sit on the game! They're just relaxing!'
It's not like the Half-Life 3 rumour mill ever went away, but over the past few years the tinfoil hats have been a-twitching more than ever. If it's not one thing, it's another: the anniversary of Hal...
‘Stop Giving Us Hopium That Turns into Dispairium’: Rumored Half-Life 3 Development Continues, Stoking The Community’s Hopes and Fears
Late last year, it seemed like Half-Life 3, the third entry in the Valve series, was about to be announced. Every available indication, whether updates to the Source 2 engine or rumors from reliable insiders about a trailer in preparation, seemed to point to …
If Half‑Life 3 Happens, It Would Put Pressure on Valve’s Other Missing Sequel
Image courtesy of Valve Valve has a way of keeping fans on edge that no one else comes close to. They vanish for years, tease nothing, and then drop a sequel in your hands that makes you rethink everything you thought a game could do. Case in point: Half-Lif…
Dataminer claims Half-Life 3 release date is not tied to Valve Steam Machine launch
If Valve’s new hardware suffers a delay, Half-Life 3 could still appear on schedule. A popular dataminer disputes reports that the game will be a Steam Machine launch title. With separate teams not coordinating release dates, the memory shortage wouldn’t affe…
Half-Life: Alyx Original Soundtrack coming to vinyl and CD
After five years waiting in the vault, the Half-Life: Alyx Original Soundtrack is breaking into the physical world with new vinyl and CD releases coming April 24th. To celebrate, we're making the game...
Here's that noir thriller built in the original Half-Life engine you asked for
There's been a surprisingly strong run of Half-Life total conversions of late, by which I mean there have been two of them. November brought us Diffusion, a massively ambitious sci-fi adventure with s...
From new Command and Conquer and Half-Life campaigns to a full expansion for an RPG classic, these are the top ten mods of the year
It's not often I get to write about Half-Life these days, even if fans are absolutely certain that the threequel is on the way. I still don't think Gabe Newell can count that high, but at least we've ...
10 years in the making, this total conversion based on Half-Life is every bit as ambitious as Black Mesa
There was a specific moment while playing Diffusion where it shifted from being merely a highly capable Half-Life mod to one of the most remarkable conversions of Valve's classic FPS I've ever played....
C'mon, Remedy, you can't use the words 'Rise and Shine' in your TGA trailer—don't you know you're hurting all those hopeful fans in r/Halflife?
Hope springs eternal, and there's no better evidence of that than the members of subreddit r/Halflife, who have been waiting all year for the announcement of Half-Life 3, or Half-Life X, or whatever t...
This Half-Life mod reimagines the game as a boomer shooter—yes, even boomier than the original
Half-Life revolutionized the first-person shooter when it released in 1998, what with its top shelf storytelling and novel puzzles. But who needs any of that crap? What if there was a game that turned...
A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop's toe created a 'time-travelling' bug that softlocked all versions of the game
One of the coolest things about Half-Life 2 is its physics engine, but as anyone who has played a physics-based game will know, even the best-in-class tech is prone to quirks here and there. Valve's l...
Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there's (almost) no good reason to believe is happening
Half-Life 3 fever has once again broken out across social media, and the Half-Life subreddit is full of both earnestly hopeful and sarcastically dismissive posts about the supposedly imminent announce...
OK, for real though, what's the chance of a Half-Life 3 announcement happening soon? Here's what we know
fter two decades of Half-Life 3 rumors, each new burst of hope looks a lot like Charlie Brown once again getting set to kick a football. None of the suspicious lines of CS:GO code or yarn-webbed consp...
Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race
Last year, Valve brought the original development team back together for a 20th anniversary Half-Life 2 update. It integrated the post-launch episodes, added a new developer commentary track, brought ...
Half-Life Alyx no VR mod gets much better while original is dirt cheap
If you've got the space and $1,000 for a Valve Index going spare, Half-Life: Alyx is easily one of the best VR games currently on the market. Valve's FPS prequel not only nails the expressive nature o...
Half-Life: Alyx's NoVR mod is looking so good, I might finally play the game
The NoVR project for Half-Life: Alyx is not yet complete, but it already looks like it offers a satisfactory way to experience the 2020 shooter without an expensive, bulky headset. Recent updates have...
Half-Life Alyx NoVR continues to impress and evolve
Half-Life Alyx NoVR is really coming together and a fresh update is out now to make the experience even better for those without a VR kit. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/202...
Half-Life: Alyx fully playable without VR even on Steam Deck thanks to a mod
There's been a few efforts to get Half-Life: Alyx playable without VR and the latest is HLA-NoVR, out now and it's now possible to play it through, even on Steam Deck too. Read the full article here: ...
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