[STEAM] Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again

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's release have been filled with plenty of rumors and hints about Half-Life 3, ranging from the

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. As we head into 2025, though, we're approaching something close to a critical mass of rumors and leaks suggesting that Half-Life 3 is really in the works this time, and could be officially announced in the coming months.

The latest tease came just before the end of 2024 via

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. In the voice of the mysterious in-game bureaucrat, Shapiro expresses hopes that "the next quarter century [will] deliver as many unexpected surprises as did the millennium's first (emphasis added)... See you in the new year."

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#2025

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— Mike Shapiro (@mikeshapiroland)

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The post is all the more notable because it's Shapiro's first in over four years, when he concluded a flurry of promotional posts surrounding the release of Half-Life: Alyx (many of which were in-character as G-Man). And in 2020, just after Alyx's release, Shapiro

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that he had recently worked on a "blast from the past" project that he would "announce... on my

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feed when I'm allowed to" (no such announcement has been forthcoming for any other game).

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