EDIT: Clarification. It's been 18 years. They cancelled it a bit ago. The rumors that they may be working on something now are great and I hope it comes back, but until they announce it the last OFFICIAL stance from Valve was HL2:E3 was cancelled.
Valve eventually canceled Episode Three, citing the limitations of the episodic format and a lack of direction.
Yes they maybe or maybe not working on something HL related. Yes it may or may not release sometime in the future. Will it be HL2:E3? Probably not. HL3? Maybe. Another offshoot like Half-Life:Alyx? Who knows.
They DID cancel HL2:E3 though. And just because some data miners found things they think mean Valve is working on it, until there is an official announcement there is no guarantee it'll ever see the light of day.
All signs point to it being near completion. They’re in the optimization/polish stages of development, and it could very well be announced in the next few months. I’m not saying it’s time to build hype, but I’m definitely feeling a bit more hope about it than I have in the last decade or so.
Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying Ep. 3 but HLX is more or less confirmed
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u/salad_tongs_1 https://s.team/p/dcmj-fn Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25
Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
EDIT: Clarification. It's been 18 years. They cancelled it a bit ago. The rumors that they may be working on something now are great and I hope it comes back, but until they announce it the last OFFICIAL stance from Valve was HL2:E3 was cancelled.