The greater than twenty years because Half-Life 2 ‘s release have been filled with lots of reports and hints concerning Half-Life 3 , ranging from the official-ish to the slim to the totally deceptive. As we head into 2025, however, we’re coming close to something near to a critical mass of reports and leaks suggesting that Half-Life 3 is really in the works this time, and can be formally introduced in the coming months.
The most recent tease came right before completion of 2024 via a New Year’s Eve social media sites video clip from G-Man voice actor Mike Shapiro. In the voice of the strange in-game politician, Shapiro reveals hopes that “the next quarter century [will] supply as numerous unanticipated shocks as did the centuries’s very first (emphasis included)… See you in the brand-new year.”
#Valve #Halflife #GMan # 2025 pic.twitter.com/mdT 5 hlxKJT
— Mike Shapiro (@mikeshapiroland) December 31, 2024
The message is all the more notable because it’s Shapiro’s very first in over 4 years, when he ended a flurry of promotional messages bordering the launch of Half-Life: Alyx (a lot of which were in-character as G-Man). And in 2020, just after Alyx ‘s release, Shapiro informed USGamer that he had recently serviced a “blast from the past” job that he would certainly “announce … on my Twitter feed when I’m enabled to” (no such statement has actually been forthcoming for any type of various other video game).
“I was working with that game for quite a while before I understood [what it was],” Shapiro stated at the time of the unannounced project. “There was a practice session and some recordings, and after one of the recording sessions I was having a drink with the director. He told me what the video game was, and no one understands that this is coming.
“This is going to be such a mindblowing re-up from what individuals have actually familiarized,” Shapiro continued in 2020 “It’s mosting likely to really … it’s going to make individuals have a complete re-understanding of what they assumed they understood about the tale in the game prior to it, and I don’t also know if individuals are anticipating it.”
Increased HLX-pectations
On its own, a single in-character article from a voice star would most likely be a bit also cryptic to thrill Half-Life followers that have seen their sequel wishes rushed so usually over the last twenty years. Yet the unexpected tease comes in the middle of a wave of leaks and reports bordering “HLX,” an inner Shutoff project that has actually been referenced in a variety of other Source 2 engine video game files recently.