While reports as of early November indicate that survival first-person shooter video game “Half-Life 3” is still far from development as game developer Valve Corporation focuses on its multiplayer games, a recently leaked list from the Steam Database seems to show that the game is already confirmed and may likely be in development at this time.
Everyone knows that the Steam Database is a site with a long history of predicting upcoming game titles. But it does not get always things right. The site once predicted the release of “Halo 3” on Steam in 2013, but the game never made it to the platform, details the NY Daily News.
Accordingly, the Steam Database revealed that a package found in Steam filed as ID 66300 was “Half-Life 3.”
The package has not been modified since making it to the list on November 4. It contains three files including Half-Life 3 Developer Comp, Half-Life 3 for Beta Testing, and Half-Life 3.
Reports also have it that the package comes straight from Valve Corporation, but Steam Database warned that third-party Steam developers can create and name their own apps and packages too.
Long-time coming
“Half-Life” was released to the PC back in 1998. Some six years later, “Half-Life 2” came out in the same gaming platform. But in 2007, “Half-Life 2: Episode 2” made it to the PC, the Mac OS X, the Linus, the Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 2 as part of Valve’s ‘The Orange Box.’
“Half-Life 3” made it to the leaked listing of Steam Database along with 12 other games including highly-anticipated and very popular games such as “Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster,” “Final Fantasy VI,” “Dragonronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc,” “Dragonronpa 2: Goodbye Despair,” and “Sonic Boom,” details Comicbook.com.
However, since Valve Corporation has yet to issue a statement or announcement to either confirm or deny the leaked listing in Steam Database regarding “Half-Life 3,” the information should be taken with a fine grain of salt.
Far from development
Despite rumored leaks and hints about “Half-Life 3,” the game is still far from development. The statement came no less from Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve Corporation.
In a statement issued recently by the Valve top honcho, he said that he was actually caught off guard by the level of interest of gamers on “Half-Life 3.” However, he said that the game is still not yet in development at this time or anytime soon.
With such statement from Newell, then it is likely that the mysterious file in the “Dota 2” update released recently did not officially come from an official Valve channel but from someone inside the company who may just be teasing anxiously waiting gamers of “Half-Life 3.”
Another hint of the video game was dropped not through a logo of the game or something or a tease on some blogs or website, but through a mysterious file that came with the latest updates to the multiplayer online battle arena video game “Dota 2.”
Players of “Dota 2” were actually surprised to receive an unknown text file as part of their game’s regular updates. The mysterious file seems quite suspicious because it has a file name of hl3.txt.
As hl3 in Valve’s lingo only means “Half-Life 3,” game enthusiasts believe that the file is an intentional hint of the game developer to say that it is now working on the development of the highly-anticipated video game.
When the file was opened, it actually contained various references such as squads, VR technology, VY movement, and Chaperone, which are all possible allusions to “Half-Life 3.”
The text file also mentioned of ziplines and Combine pulse ceiling Turret which indicate that “Half-Life 3” may contain “The Combine” in its plot.
With such features, the outlet actually believes that the “Half-Life 3” is going to be so great if and when it finally comes out in the future.