{"id":104255,"date":"2025-12-16T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=3f074400bf65b1196ecec6b10506540d"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:28:32","slug":"reporter-suggests-half-life-3-will-be-a-steam-machine-launch-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=104255","title":{"rendered":"Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: This would be the funniest thing.\nThey launched their last software platform via HL2.<\/div>

If you can take your mind way back to the beginning of 2025, you might remember a fresh wave<\/a> of rumors<\/a> suggesting that Half-Life 3<\/em> was finally reaching the final stages of production, and could be announced and\/or released at any moment. Now, though, 2025 seems set to come to a close without any official news of a game fans have been waiting<\/a> literal decades<\/a> for.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t necessarily mean a Half-Life 3<\/em> announcement and\/or release isn’t imminent, though. On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted on a recent Insider Gaming podcast<\/a> that “everybody I’ve talked to are still adamant [Half-Life 3<\/em>] is a game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine.”<\/p>\n

Straw—who has a long<\/a> history<\/a> of reporting<\/a> gaming rumors from anonymous sources<\/a>—said this Half-Life 3<\/em> information is “not [from] these run-of-the-mill sources that haven’t gotten me information before. … These aren’t like random, one-off people.” And those sources are “still adamant that the game is coming in the spring,” Straw added, noting that he was “specifically told [that] spring 2026 [is the window] for the Steam Machine, for the Frame, for the Controller, [and] for Half-Life 3<\/em>.”<\/p>

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