With no concrete details to hold on to, fans are forced to make their own "Half Life 3" release date speculations.
According to latest speculations, Valve could finally make the big move on November 2015. Here's why:
"Hear me out. Half-Life 2 was released on November 16, 2004. Valve used it as the push for Steam and the Source Engine (CS:S was the first Source game and HL2 followed shortly after)," Gigabytegeek posted on a "Half Life" subreddit.
"This November the Steam Machines, Vive, Steam Link and the Steam controller will be released, these were announced at GDC 2015."
"It is also likely this is the same time that The first Source 2 game will be released and a large update to Steam will be made. Source one was announced at GDC in 2003. Since its release in 2003 a new game developed by Valve was released every year from 2004-2013. Which likely means that new game development since 2011(ish) has all been source 2 related."
"The engine itself has been in development since at least 2007. The release year of Episode 2. Given the length of time a polished game engine can take, the delays for Half Life 3 make sense," he added.
"The original release date for HL2 was the November after E3 2003. So the expected announcement for HL3 is likely this June, with a release date of November to help push sales of the new Steam devices."
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Meanwhile, some other HL fans are hinging on the possibility that Valve will make "Portal 3" and "Half Life 3" into one game. Read more about this theory here.
When it comes to "Half Life 3," Gabe Newell previously explained that they will be doing the sequel should Valve employees want to do it.
"The only reason we'd go back and do like a super classic kind of product is if a whole bunch of people just internally at Valve said they wanted to do it and had a reasonable explanation for why," he said.
"But you know if you want to do another Half-Life game and you want to ignore everything we've learned in shipping Portal 2 and in shipping all the updates on the multiplayer side, that seems like a bad choice."
