So your friend heard from his friend who used to go out with a girl who was a cousin of a Valve developer that Half-Life 3 would be released as a Steam exclusive this March? Or maybe you just crawled across a convincing website which seemed to point to another, long-awaited iteration in the Half-Life series? Well bad news, friends: "You are being trolled."
That's the word from Valve writer Chet Faliszek, who says on the Steam forums that "there is no ARG," and there are no official hints out there at all that a third Half-Life game is coming any time soon. We don't care how convincing that secret FTP that the guy on IRC told you about was: any Half-Life 3 rumors so far are completely unofficial, as great as that fan-made Portal short was.
Then again, it would be just like Valve to say that an official ARG wasn't official, wouldn't it? Maybe they're just trying to hide the real story by saying it too is a fake! Conspiracy!
Via: G4
Source: Steam Forums
Things were going so well. In recent months, the hopes of Half-Life fans rose a little bit thanks to what appeared to be (if you squinted REAL hard, that is) a mounting silent campaign by Valve that was apparently leading up to the long-awaited Half-Life 3 reveal. Well. It turns out that we've all been punk'd.
Half-Life and Left 4 Dead writer Chet Faliszek beats fan hopes senseless with his crowbar made of words in a new Steam forums post (via Kotaku). I've put the full text of the message after the jump, but his first four words on the subject really tell the whole tale: "You are being trolled."
Faliszek writes:
You are being trolled.
There is no ARG.
Wheatley's speech was set in Portal 2 fiction - that is all.
There has been no directive from Gabe to leak anything. That is all false.
I just want to say this so there is no confusion. This is the community trolling the community nothing more. While it is nice to see people excited about anything HL, I hate seeing people be trolled like this.
Thanks
Source: Steam forums
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