Half-Life 3 is in the news again, as it has always been and always will be. SteamDB recently found evidence of gaming’s greatest vaporware buried inside Valve’s PC game sharing program, and that’s got some people excited about the possibility that Half-Life 3 is on its way. Maybe it’s already here, and you just missed it! Not that likely.  As SteamDB explains, the inclusion of the name “Half-Life 3” as a package name doesn’t confirm anything. Here’s what they say:

“While this information comes straight from Valve and many of these kinds of leaks turned out to be real in the past, it is important to note that third-party Steam developers can create and name their own apps/packages, a noteworthy mention of developers doing this are these packages, in which they are trying to XSS Steam.”

And even if the info did indicate that Valve itself had something in the Steam database named “Half-Life 3,” it still wouldn’t be a confirmation of any kind. It might just be there for… some other reason. As always with this kind of thing, there a million scenarios that don’t end in a confirmation of Half-Life 3, and only one that does. And, given the fact that it’s Valve, they might also have put it there on purpose as a red herring. I wouldn’t put it past them, I don’t think.

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