This isn't news. This is Valve.

Just because they're not showing any games doesn't mean they won't be talking about HL3, right?

Fuck

Meh, I couldn't care less about the Half Life series.

I'm convincing myself that I don't care about Episode 3 anymore...

Who am I kidding, most appropriate headline ever

Not even DOTA2? Valve never ceases to amaze me.

FUUUUUUUUUU~

I'm not excited for Half Life anything... sorry...

Bring on DOTA 2 BETA. I've played DotA for 300hours and HoN for 440h. BRING IT ON! I WANT TO SEE WHAT IS NEW!

 @Brodehouse said:

I'm really starting to believe Half-Life fans are deranged.  And you know what, I don't blame them.  Every other company in the world wants you to like what they're doing so much, and then when you do, they're all too happy to give you as much of it as you could ever want.  Not Valve.  They're almost using the possibility of any game having a Half-Life reference in it like a Goddamn bludgeon to cave in the skulls of Half-Life fans.What in mighty fuck's name could they possibly be doing over there?  I just have this image of two Valve staff having a meeting."Half-Life 3.  We have the technology and the manpower, if we start scheduling man-months of project development now, we could have-""-You know what we should do?""Hrm?  No, what?""We should race the office chairs around the hallways again.""Good point, let's table this for now and reconvene in three weeks."

OMG It is taking every fiber of my being not to spaz out in a complete nerd rage right now...It's been 4 years now how fucking long does it take to release an FPS game that's only supposed to be around FOUR FUCKING HOURS LONG!!!You mean to tell me that Activision can crank out some bullshit CoD game with a full 8 hour campaign and multiplayer every fucking year but Valve can't release just one four hour game in four years!?!

Makes sense I guess! Portal 2 as only just been released!

Motherfucking bullshit...

I don't understand There is 0 reason to not say something, I am sad :(

sad face

They said there would be 3 big surprises this year...maybe this was one?

Doesn't mean they won't show anything BEFORE E3. Right guys? Right????

They said there would be 3 big surprises this year...maybe this was one?

Not surprised.

At this point can we still expect they call it "Half-Life 2: EPISODE 3" I mean by the time it comes out it would have already been so far apart from the other episodes that it would seem very out of place to bunch it together with the previous two episodic games. I still say they're working on a Half-Life 3 and ensuring it has the drastically different and fresh impact that HL2 had in comparison to HL1.

This is disappointing news.

WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME MOTHER FUCKER!?

Valve is one of the most over-rated developers on the planet. I'm glad I won't have to see them at E3. Also, Steam is bull shit. 

It doesn't seem irrational to hope a new game in the best game series of anything of all time will be made.

Just saying.

Wake up, Mr. Freemen. Wake up, and smell the ashes.

Half Life 1 was awesome. Half Life 2 was alright. Don't really care about the series as a whole.

Seriously, how long!!!!!!!

Fuck.

Okay, well, Valve promised "three surprises." So we've had... one, right? The Portal 2 ARG "early" release thing?

I choose to not believe this. 

Really want some kind of Half Life (ep) 3 reveal, but they just released one of the finest games I've ever played so I don't mind so much if they rest on their laurels at E3 this year.

Allow me to say it all for you: WHAT ARE THEY DOING?!?!?!

Okay, well, Valve promised "three surprises." So we've had... one, right? The Portal 2 ARG "early" release thing?
We're almost half way through the year. PAX Prime, perhaps? That's in August... Valve seem to love their fans, and PAX Prime is probably the best place to hit them with some big news.

This is just me being optimistic, though, probably. ):

gaben is holding gordon hostage. sweet, sweet gordon.

Half Life 3 had best have a new fucking engine. 

That is all.

I'm starting to notice this trend of Alex and Patrick competing to see who can have the snarkiest, most ellipsis filled headlines, and it's getting annoying.

Ricochet : Source exclusively for Wii 2.

MAKES PERFECT SENSE

I never finished half life 2, was thinking I'll get ep 3 and then finish the entire game, but it never came so I kind of lost interest in half life, but I like all the other valve games, I wanna see some of that dota or w/e.

Still busy gushing over Portal 2.

They'd better be joking.  Because if they're not to the point on Episode 3 where they can actually show it then they can keep that effing game!  You don't put out a game like Half-Life and then dick the fans around for years making promises and teases but not delivering!  YOUDON'TEFFINGDOITDOYOUHEARME!!!!

Oh c'mon, man! This is bullshit.

fucking gabe

My problem is not that the game is taking a long time, but that they don't say ANYTHING about it. To make me happy, all they would have to say is that a half life game is being worked on. They don't have to show any damn screenshots or videos, but just a little statement like that.

Classic

Come on valve we need you.

Im happy to wait for HL3 or Episode 3, they always produce games of the highest quality.

Klepik you just broke my heart!

Seriously Valve?

That's it eff you Gaben.

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