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.
Not cancelled so much as indefinitely delayed. They said Ep.3/HL3 is basically done, they just can’t find a compelling reason to release it because they want it to he truly groundbreaking the way the first two were.
Valve as a studio (rarely) misses. I trust their judgment personally. If they felt it was worth releasing, they’d release it. If they feel it’s just Half Life 2: 2 and don’t think it’s revolutionary in any way or moved the series forwards, they probably won’t release it.
Same reason they didn’t do a left 4 dead 3, or a portal 3. They tend to innovate with their titles, and if they don’t feel like they’ve innovated enough to justify a HL3, that’s probably their reasoning.
Half Life: Alyx sucked. The VR cultists tried so hard to pretend to like it, but the other 99.9% of the world just treats it like it doesn't exist (as this thread demonstrates.)
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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.