Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety...

Cue a brand new batch of “Half-Life 3 confirmed” memes. The most recent rumor surrounding Valve’s long-awaited subsequent installment within the Half-Life sequence claims that the sport is presently “playable, end-to-end” and will even be introduced in the summertime, adopted by a launch in winter of this 12 months. The hypothesis comes from Tyler McVicker, who’s identified for reporting on Valve rumors, throughout his latest Q&A livestream. In response to McVicker, the sport is presently playable from starting to finish, which he guesses may put it on observe for an announcement and launch this 12 months.

In addition to McVicker’s hours-long livestream, there have been different latest hints about Valve’s progress on its extremely anticipated title. In March, Valve idea artist Evgeniy Evstratiy claimed that he was within the room the place Valve made Half-Life 3 on CG Voices Podcast. In the identical month, one other Valve leaker, Gabe Follower, claimed that Half-Life 3 can be the “finish of Gordon’s journey,” doubtlessly signaling a non-cliffhanger ending to one in all gaming’s finest franchises. Outdoors of those rumors, web sleuths found code referencing HLX, which is broadly regarded as the codename for Half-Life 3, in main updates to Impasse and Dota 2.

Whereas these rumors are unconfirmed, they’re promising indicators of life for Half-Life 3. McVicker stated throughout his livestream that the HLX undertaking gained’t be one other digital actuality sport like Half-Life: Alyx and that there are procedural technology options that aren’t for terrain technology or roguelike mechanics. Earlier than you get your hopes up, do not forget that Half-Life 2 lately celebrated its 20-year anniversary, and we nonetheless don’t have any official affirmation from Valve a couple of follow-up sport.