If we are doing a high-level intellectual exercise, we can assume that Discussion of Half-Life 3 began on November 16, 2004., that is, the day Half-Life 2 hit the market In other words, next fall it will be 20 years (yes, yes, 20 years, don’t worry) that Valve put the final version on sale. development leak incident months ago. The version of Steam at the time focused on in-house titles was immediately saturated.

The game faced a tough challenge to at least live up to its predecessor, and it wasn’t easy, as Valve’s debut game practically became an instant classic at the time, as well as one of the highest rated and most awarded. games so far. And it really did, not only tying but even surpassing its predecessor, which has since made it worthy of many recognition as the best FPS one player from the history of video games.

Since its inception, Valve has been characterized as a company that greatly respects its users and puts their care before possibilities that would bring huge benefits. And that, when added to the fact that they are aware of the community’s expectations for a hypothetical Half-Life 3, along with their own quality standards, creates an equation that explains to us the reason why Valve is afraid of the said project.

However, Valve has never claimed to have completely ruled out the project, so new rumors about its hypothetical development periodically appear with more or less basis. We found the last one on Eurogamer, where reflect the biography of Natasha Chandelmore specifically from the line in it where he mentioned (he’s already deleted it, but it can be found on Archive.org) his participation in Valve’s project, as yet unpublished, called White Sands.

This alone tells us that Valve is working on a new game or a new installment of one of its franchises. However, What connection is there between White Sands and Half-Life 3? Well, White Sands is the name of one of the national parks in the United States and it is located in New Mexico. Outsiders to the franchise will remain as they were, but those familiar with its history will certainly be quick to recall Black Mesa’s location.

Is the connection weak? Without a doubt, although not as much as the hypothetical date of the second trailer of GTA 6, which we repeated a few days ago. Selection from codenames for projects often have a bit of a puzzle to them, which in this case fits like a glove. And when you add to that the rush Chandel pulled out to remove the mention of the project from his bio, then we have more reasons (although they are still few) to think that there are signs of life for Half-Life 3 this time Of course, for now it’s better not to get your hopes up. Of course, do not forget that in the absence of Half-Life 3, you can enjoy Half-Life 2 again with an exceptional graphical improvement.