Hey guys. I am not really a new user here, but I have not post on the forums much.
Last night I found some pretty interesting news for Half-Life 3 and a cancelled Episode Three / Four that we all have heard about. I edited it into Giant Bomb and it was approved as of last night. It is some pretty heavy rumors with some facts that help support it.
Here is the link:
http://www.giantbomb.com/half-life-2-episode-three/61-21035/
June 15, 2011
On the Steam forums, a thread entitled "Half-Life 3 is official confirmed!" was quickly removed when a former Valve employees', Mike Dussalt, resume revealed his work on Half-Life 3's world programming. The post follows:
"Mike Dussault, a long time programmer at Valve, recently left the company. I didn't know him until last week. Let me introduce myself. I'm a freelance artist. I do contract work for a studio in Seattle, through the internet. They have a client access system on their site. I came across Dussault's resume, while browsing the files section. Now, I know you're all curious about Valve's in-house development, but I'm only going to talk about the Half-Life series.
According to his resume, Episode Three was put on hold when Valve decided to move away from the episodic model in late 2007, right after Episode Two's release. He was a technial advisor on a cancelled Half-Life title, made outside of the company. Dussault's work on Half-Life 3's world programming, and the scripting system (between 2008 and 2010) is also mentioned in the resume."
Valve fan-site Lambda Generation reported on the news and dug deeper to find out that the original poster, ryuuk, has been permanently banned from the Steam forums. They also discovered that Mike Dussault was in fact a real employee at Valve and left the company over a year ago. One other mention of Mike Dussault said that he was a "technical advisor on a cancelled Half-Life title made outside of the company," which was rumored to have been the infamous Episode Four gamers heard about in May 2011. Valve has stated in the past that their interest in episodic material for Half-Life 2 has been lost as of 2007 and there have been new plans for Half-Life mid 2008, after the release of Episode Two. From what ryuuk has said, Dussault has been working on Half-Life 3's world programming since 2008 until his departure in September 2010.
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So what do you think? Trust worthy information? This makes sense to me as I have been saying since 2009 I wouldn't be surprised if Valve launched a new engine (Source 2) with the launch of Half-Life 3. Gabe told Valve fans that there were three surprises they were announcing all the way until September 2011. Maybe we will finally see some footage and mechanics from HL3.
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