It turns out that the poster has also been paid for by a media company with a naughty sense of humor, which some critics describe as some kind of world-class trolling, the new term for misdirect or false advertising.
The logos at the bottom of the poster indicate that the poster was paid for by Spieletipps and Giga Games.
The “Half-Life: 3” poster reminds fans of an old NeoGAF joke thread titled “Half-Life, 3 screenshots” which was simply a thread with three screens from the original “Half-Life” game and nothing to do with “Half-Life 3” yet again.
While some gamers claim that they were upset by the misleading advertisement, the open-minded ones simply took it for what it was – a joke. More importantly, because of the reactions that it generated online, it only showed how widely anticipated a game “Half-Life 3” is.
The latest almost official information that came from Valve’s end emanated from Alan Yates, the company’s hardware engineer.
In a recent post on Reddit, he said that he was quite fortunate to start working at Valve right around the time when Michael Abrash had begun the AR/VR research team.
He said that the group was a much smaller team than it is now and the team has since grown to encompass about a third of the company.