Some see the release of Half-Life: Alyx as a strategy hatched by Valve to sell their new VR headset Valve Index. You’ll play Alyx, and you’ll be wielding a way to manipulate gravity once more: the “Gravity Gloves”, which we can see Alyx using to pick up a pistol from a distance and interact with puzzles in the game’s first trailer. A prequel set between the first Half-Life and Half-Life 2, in the days when Alyx Vance and her father Eli are building the resistance to the Combine’s alien occupation of Earth. Or has it? Valve revealed the new addition to the series Half-Life: Alyx set to release in March 23rd 2020, but there are discrepancies in opinions of whether this new release counts as Half-Life 3 or not. This article by Andy Chalk covers everything that has been rumored about Half-Life 3.īut the time for speculations has finally ended. If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably seen one of the many “Half Life 3 confirmed” jokes. During this time it has been the object of fake leaks, hoaxes, rumors and countless memes. The possibility of a new release in the Half-Life series has been the greatest mystery in PC gaming of the past decade. Yet Valve hasn’t given us any indication we’ll ever find out what happened to Gordon Freeman and Alyx.
It’s been over thirteen years since the Half-Life series last showed life, with the shocking conclusion of Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Over time, however, Steam’s role in Valve’s repertoire changed completely. In 2004, after a six-year development cycle that saw several delays, Valve released Half-Life 2, which was a major success in regards of game design and presentation, upping the stakes and expanding upon the backstories of the first game’s characters.įun fact: In the beginning, the purpose of Steam was to allow for quick updates to Valve’s core titles, and Half-Life 2 was the first that required its use. The original Half-Life, Valve’s first game, was released in 1998 to critical and commercial success.