The Recap
It began in 2024, when YouTuber Tyler McVicker talked about some data-mined details about Valve’s alleged Half-Life venture titled HLX. Again then, he acknowledged it was a brand new, separate, non-VR Half-Life title that, he steered, was near completion primarily based on the recordsdata he received to see.
Distinguished Valve knowledge miner and sport leak reporter Gabe Follower added to the raging fireplace of Half-Life followers’ HLX craze later that year. In his video on doable HLX developments, he stated that it seemed like Valve’s new sport would characteristic “procedural mechanics, dynamic climate, improved gravity manipulation, revamped physics,” and extra.
In 2025, everybody gasped in pleasure as Idea Artist Evgeniy Evstratiy, who primarily labored on Impasse, talked about Half-Life 3 within the CG Voices podcast. He acknowledged that he was within the room the place Valve was engaged on the third installment within the collection, though he did not catch a glimpse of the particular improvement course of and solely noticed computer systems and whiteboards.