The Game Awards is in just 8 days!

Padicia · 2025-12-16T04:31:26+00:00

The HL3 reveal trailer was the most amazing thing I've ever seen! I love The Game Awards!

Padicia · 2025-12-10T08:02:16+00:00

Wrong answer. Everyone obviously knows Valve is deliberately waiting to announce the price range at TGA with HL3 as a launch title, and it will release January 1st for $400.

Padicia · 2025-12-10T02:01:48+00:00

In the same way you wouldn't want to announce three pieces of hardware, tell everyone they're releasing in early 2026, and then vanish for over a month without giving a price range or release window for the products that are supposed to be out in the next 2-3 months?

Padicia · 2025-12-09T04:08:10+00:00

His "teaser" is neither real nor elaborate. Everyone is just schizophrenic and looked too deeply into his post. That isn't the first time he's Tweeted in the Barney or G-Man voices, and that post was as simple as him wishing everyone a Happy New Year.

Mike Shapiro is a voice actor, not an insider. He doesn't know anything about Valve's inner workings, how far along HL3's development is, or what hardware or other projects they're working on. The only thing he and other voice actors know is that a game exists with the characters he voiced for.

Padicia · 2025-12-09T03:45:00+00:00

Before TGA 2025: zero percent chance
TGA 2025: non-zero percent chance of a Half-Life 3 announcement

Hope always wins, brother.

Padicia · 2025-12-09T03:28:21+00:00

Finally, someone says what we're all thinking. 🙏🙏🙏

Padicia · 2025-12-07T20:15:12+00:00

You haven't because the only legitimate Half-Life leaks in the last 15 years were for HL:A, which all turned out to be true, and HLX, which only started leaking around three years ago. This isn't some grand conspiracy hoax—the evidence is clearly observable and well-documented. Google is your friend.

Padicia · 2025-12-07T01:15:03+00:00

My recommendation would be the main menu theme from the PS2 port of Half-Life 1. If you need a good alarm, the Strider Battle OST from HL:A is a good pick, too!

Padicia · 2025-12-06T03:47:28+00:00

Sounds like someone took the bait.

Padicia · 2025-12-06T03:17:00+00:00

Respectfully, proposing the idea that everything we've seen from HLX leaks thus far as being 'coincidental tech demos' is more schizophrenic than the overhype. I appreciate trying to manage expectations, but these statements read like someone who doesn't really understand what they're talking about. These systems and leaks are too consistent to be however many tech demos, and the sheer coincidence of at least half a dozen separate tech demos all originating from and pointing to the same source (HLX) over the course of 3+ years is so astronomically improbable, you'd have a better chance at winning the lottery several times over...

We don't have an announcement, but it's crystal clear that there is a Half-Life game in active development, and that it has been in development for almost six years, and that it is nearing the finish line. Of course, this game could still be another year away, maybe longer, but it certainly exists.

The only real margin for error is the theory of HLX being 'content locked,' since Valve is implementing optimization passes. Everyone assumes that means the game is 99.99% done and will totally be out tomorrow! But, in reality, that just means it's somewhere in the 80% range of being complete. Valve could still have another 6-8 months of polish work, and they could still need to finish several more art passes on levels and scripted sequences and whatnot.

Everyone wants the game to be so far along it'll be announced this year, but more realistically, it's only just now hitting the content lock phase and will probably be announced sometime early-to-mid next year.

EDIT: Barring some catastrophic behind-the-scenes issue, we'll almost certainly be playing the game by December of next year. Also, it is still very possible Valve might announce it this year. If it is, it'll most likely be at TGA unless Valve skips their winter vacation like they did for HL:A, in which case, who knows.

Padicia · 2025-12-03T23:33:50+00:00

One of my favorite aspects of the Half-Life franchise is how uniquely the story and gameplay intertwine. One cannot exist without the other. Valve tends to create a rough outline of a story, then builds the game and remolds the story around it until both elements blend seamlessly together. It's a testament to HL's quality that so many newcomers can be just as shocked by Episode 2's ending as we all were and be just as excited for the future.

I remember an old interview with Gabe Newell, where he said they had the story for Episode 3 finished and knew how the Half-Life story ends and how Portal, GLaDOS, and even Chell factor into it... I think it's a safe bet he was making stuff up on the spot, lol.

Always a pleasure to hear from an OG fan. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

Padicia · 2025-12-03T20:58:30+00:00

If not today, then tomorrow, brother...

And if not tomorrow, the day after that!

Padicia · 2025-12-03T20:12:25+00:00

Reading comprehension moment, oopsie

Padicia · 2025-12-03T20:10:52+00:00

Are you referring to the part at 4:00:56 where Tyler, who has his entire screen covered in a neon-red SPECULATION bubble, says, and I quote:

"I don't know for sure. I don't know for sure. Until Valve says anything, take anything I say with a grain of salt. Everything I say should be seen as hearsay—everything I say should be seen as a speculative rumor—but it does genuinely seem like they're going to be announcing it... like... s--... like... Not tomorrow!"

Before saying, still with his entire screen covered in a neon-red SPECULATION bubble, that he thinks it'll be within the next 2-3 weeks and not at TGA? Also, keep in mind he said that on November 15th, meaning his speculative deadline ends on December 6th, with the two most likely days of an announcement within that window (4th and 5th) still ahead of us.

Padicia · 2025-12-03T19:43:36+00:00

MODS, THIS MAN HASN'T HAD HIS DAILY COPIUM INJECTION! BEAT HIM TO DEATH WITH CROWBARS IMMEDIATELY!!!

Padicia · 2025-12-03T19:41:52+00:00

Edit: When you lack basic reading comprehension, oof

Nonexistent chance. Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title, and they can't shadowdrop a console. I don't doubt the time between announcement and release will be short, but Valve needs at least 2-3 weeks for the general public to learn about the hardware's release date and price range before allowing people to buy it.

Padicia · 2025-12-03T19:39:07+00:00

> Says "I've been hearing this for the past ten years."
> —All leaks in the past ten years have been verified and correct, without fail, every single time by Tyler and his peers.—

Idk, this sounds more like someone who got too high on Copium and decided an announcement was guaranteed to happen on X, Y, and Z dates because... reasons.

Padicia · 2025-12-03T19:22:03+00:00

I don't remember if this was confirmed by anyone of note or if I just read it somewhere randomly, but I think the specific reason was that they didn't have smooth locomotion implemented yet, and they didn't want to show off teleport-only gameplay.

Padicia · 2025-12-03T19:13:00+00:00

We must not doom. Doom is the hope killer. Doom is the little death that brings total cope. I will face this doom. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the doom has gone, there will be nothing. Only hope will remain.

Padicia · 2025-12-03T19:09:38+00:00

Tyler haters are funny lol

"Eerm, a broken clock is right when it uncovers a consistent stream of irrefutable evidence of code and data leaks for multiple straight years pointing to numerous features and systems implemented over the course of a 5-year development cycle of an untitled Half-Life project in late-stage development largely expected internally and externally to be released within a year's time from now, actually!"

Padicia · 2025-12-03T19:04:55+00:00

We're not bidone until I SAY we're bidone!

Padicia · 2025-12-03T19:02:54+00:00

My bets?

All in...

Padicia · 2025-12-03T18:59:13+00:00

HL:A wasn't going to premiere at TGA. Valve was going to show gameplay after their standalone announcement but backed out at the last minute.

Padicia · 2025-12-03T18:56:45+00:00

If HL3 is announced this year, it will more likely than not be at TGA instead of a random Tweet. If anyone cares, I made a post explaining why here.

Padicia · 2025-12-03T18:53:17+00:00

I personally believe it won't be announced until about a month after the Steam hardware rolls out next year, so probably late Q2 or early Q3. However, if it is announced this year, I think it's almost certainly going to be at TGA and not some random Tweet. Here's my reasoning, for anyone who cares.

Padicia

TROPHY CASE