Finally! An official quasi-update on HALF-LIFE 3
Valve have, famously, said very little about the status of the next game in their core Half-Life franchise. In fact, the head of Valve, Gabe Newell, has been reticent to even comment about it, outside of the standard "It'll be done when it's done," comment and mutterings about Valve Time . On the Seven Day Cooldown podcast, Newell is asked a question about Ricochet , a minor and highly obscure title that Valve released in 2000 and which Valve themselves do not acknowledge on their own website. Coming after a series of Half-Life questions, Newell suddenly starts talking about ' Ricochet 2 '. Given that the chances of a real Ricochet 2 are non-existent, it seems probable that he was actually talking about Half-Life 3 / Episode 3 (the fact that both Newell and the show's presenters keep laughing is a bit of a giveaway). So based on his comments, the situation seems to be that: A team is currently working on Half-Life 3 / Ep3 and the freeform work stru...