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Rumor: No New Half-Life in 2010
by Chris Faylor, Jan 19, 2010 11:10am PST
While Half-Life developer Valve has remained rather quiet as to when series star Gordon Freeman will continue his crowbar-wielding antics, a rumor currently making the rounds claims that it won't be this year.
"Loose Talk has learned that there won't be any game from the franchise in 2010, and what will finally come out is still unknown," reads the self-proclaimed "rumors and scuttlebutt" column in the February 2010 issue of Game Informer. "Will it be Half-Life 2: Episode Three? Or will it be a full-on Half-Life 3?"
The last Half-Life entry, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, arrived in October 2007. Since then, Valve has described Episode Three--the final entry in the Half-Life 2: Episode trilogy--as "a more ambitious project" and teased "the next time you play as Gordon will be longer than the distance between Half-Life 2 to Episode One, and Episode One to Episode Two," later telling Shacknews "Freeman's not done...stay tuned for more."
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Why?
Because at this point - almost two and a half years since the last episode was released - the fact that Valve won't even confirm that episode 3 is being actively developed almost certainly means one of two things:
1. Valve don't even know themselves what form the next installment will take
2. Valve have decided to kill Episode 3 entirely and roll whatever story elements it contained into Half Life 3
But they don't want to confirm either of those things because they know (ESPECIALLY after their PR fiasco with L4D2) that telling their fans either of the above will piss them the hell off. So they're stonewalling us instead.
Yeah, it sure ain't the end of the world. But after, as i said, almost two and a half years, it sure as hell is aggravating.
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Read some history. http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Articles.Detail&id=121
Valve doesn't do that shit to that degree anymore. If they say "We're working on HL2:E3" then there will be constant pressure for more info about when and where and what. But since they're a privately owned company, they can take as much time as they want and drop a golden egg in your lap when they're done. That's way better than the shit they pulled in the past.
So get over your whiny emo shit about how you magically know that Valve has given up on HL and they don't know what the story is or where it will go. It's THEIR story. It's THEIR IP. It belongs to THEM. And THEY will let you know what you need to know about what they do with their time and their money when they feel like it, not when you /livejournal on shacknews.
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