Throughout Valve’s living room announcements last week—in which the company revealed SteamOS, Steam Machines, and the Steam Controller—many on the Internet joked that, really, all this was confirmation that Half-Life 3 was on the way.
But then yesterday, the Verge reported that on September 29, Valve had registered a trademark for Half-Life 3. In Europe.
Then, today a post on Eurogamer points back to Reddit, where users took screengrabs of the internal roster of employees working in the Half-Life 3 development group.
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED?
Or perhaps just a very subtle and well-timed troll on the part of Valve? The company seems to endlessly love taunting its fans with clues and non-clues. At the same time, it seems unreasonable that a company would to go such lengths just to make its fans seize up and go insane. But that’s Valve for you, I guess.
As of now, there’s been nothing official from the company whatsoever, so your guess is as good as mine. We have fun saying “Half-Life 3 confirmed” as often as we can. Running jokes are the Internet’s bread and butter, and there are few jokes as breadly and buttery as the ol’ Half-Life 3 routine.
But, on the other hand, it’s been a long time coming. And now Valve has made it clear that it’s bringing a big new hunk of hardware to market. Most new consoles need launch games, and many have speculated that Half-Life 3 may have been held back to be that launch game, that killer app, that sets the Steam Machine apart, no matter what form it winds up taking. Can you think of a better piece of software to sell users on a brand new hardware product from a company that has never actually sold hardware?
Microsoft had Halo on the original Xbox. Valve may have Half-Life 3 for the Steam Machine.
What do you think? Crazy? Or just crazy enough to work? At this point, until we actually hear anything from Valve, this is all just fun and games. But Valve fans live in hope
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