"If you can take your mind way back to the beginning of 2025, you might remember a fresh wave of rumors suggesting that Half-Life 3 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 literal decades for."
"Straw-who has a long history of reporting gaming rumors from anonymous sources-said this Half-Life 3 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.""
"For one, Straw admitted that the previous information he had received on potential Half-Life 3 launch and/or announcement dates was not reliable enough to report in detail. "I had been told a date. I was not going to report that date because they weren't 100 percent confident in that date," he said. "That date has since passed.""
Anonymous industry sources claim Half-Life 3 is planned as a launch title for Valve's Steam Machine hardware in spring 2026, tied to the Frame and Controller. Those sources are described as long-standing and not random one-off contacts. The Steam Machine hardware is already slated for early 2026, making such a tie-in plausible given earlier leaks about advanced development. However, previous dates provided by sources proved unreliable and a previously suggested date has already passed, undermining confidence. Caution remains warranted because at least one source withheld an exact date due to lack of full confidence.
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