HALF-LIFE 3 Could Release Winter 2025 With Announcement As Early As This Summer
A new report claims that Half-Life 3 is playable in its entirety with an announcement possibly coming this Summer. The game is currently undergoing optimization with potential release later in 2025.
Rumors of Half-Life 3 have persisted for years. For nearly two decades, fans have been clinging to every rumor that has popped up. And while there's been no shortage of leaks, Valve has not officially announced it. That could change this year.
Prominent Valve insider Tyler McVicker recently claimed on his Q&A livestream that Half-Life 3 is not only in development, but it's actually playable from beginning to end. Given the game's status, he speculates that it could be officially announced this summer, followed by a release in before the end of 2025, probably this winter.
The livestream was packed with nuggets of information for Half-Life 3, including confirmation that it's not a virtual reality game.
"The game is not VR," McVicker stated. "Half Life 3 is not a VR title."
Half-Life 3, which is internally codenamed "HLX," is supposedly undergoing extensive testing and optimization right now. "This is the furthest (HLX) has ever been. Period," he claimed. "The game is playable - end to end. Period. [Other HL3/Ep3 projects have] never been that far. And they're optimising, polishing, and they're probably content-locked and if they're not then they're mechanic locked."
McVicker also addressed the procedural generation system, which he claims has been "misunderstood" by the general public.
"The way Valve is going about that is akin to taking the [AI] Director from Left4Dead 2 and making it significantly more powerful," he explained. "It's not changing geometry. It's instead changing entity placement, right [... like] doors, physics props, enemies, items. NPCs of any kind."