Half-Life Alyx was also GameSpot's Game of The Year in 2020. What's for certain is that players still enjoy games set in the Half-Life universe: Half-Life Alyx was very well received, and future additions to the franchise would be welcome. While he spoke of the possibility of a fourth episodic instalment, he confirmed that it would be stand-alone and developed outside of Valve.
The nice thing is, by not answering those questions, I avoid the community coming up with new, equally-difficult-to-answer questions." When asked about the future of Half-Life and Portal in a 2021 interview, Newell commented, "I've successfully not spoken about those things for a long time and I hope to continue to not talk about them until they are moot questions. Valve boss Gabe Newell has taken the stance of not commenting on what's next for the Half-Life franchise. Half-Life fans have to be very strong now: According Continue reading Half Life 3.
The well-known leaker Tyler McVicker explains in a YouTube video why this is exactly the case. McVicker describes Citadel as a nostalgia-fest, combining elements from games such as Left 4 Dead and.
Instead, the team is working on a new software to best showcase what the Steam Deck is capable of doing Citadel. Many rumors about Half-Life 3 have flown around throughout the years-ranging from it getting developed to it being completely scrapped. Novemat 6:41 pm from Sara Petzold Half Life 3 is still a long time coming and it will probably stay that way for a while. The news comes via Tyler McVicker of Valve News Network, who confirmed in a video that the studio currently has no plans to continue Half-Life’s ongoing story. "Citadel is very much in development," he commented. McVicker went on to state that Citadel is actively getting worked on at Valve. Originally there was supposed to be a VR asymmetrical cooperative component, however due to Valve's lackluster view on VR in the current day, it's very possible that it's set aside." "It's being created with the Steam Deck in mind due to how the game is supposed to be controlled. Think about Left 4 Dead, Alien Swarm, and an RTS, and Half-life all having a baby," stated McVicker. " is a Half-Life-based, FPS/RTS hybrid, that is cooperatively based. McVicker also commented on Citadel, another in-progress project at Valve. Now Playing: We Play Half-Life | GameSpot Live In fact, McVicker also says that the studio members who are working on this game will likely not be seen as "value-generating" employees, meaning that the higher-ups at the company could squash the project in due time.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Valve as a company is supposedly much more focused on projects such as the Steam Deck at this point in time, meaning that essentially no resources are being put into a development team for Half-Life 3. And while this news at face value might be enough to get fans extremely excited, McVicker cautions against this.Įxplaining more about this project as a whole, McVicker said that the size of the team that is supposedly working on Half-Life 3 is extremely small.
"There is a very minor group working on Half-Life 3, at the time of this recording," McVicker said in a footnote comment during his aforementioned video. UPDATE: The Half-Life 3 trademark registration that set the internet alight last week has. In a recent video from one Tyler McVicker, who is an often-accurate insider when it comes to all things Valve, it was said that Half-Life 3 is currently being developed within Valve.