

There's no universe where that will happen," they concluded. "The idea of delivering a third episode of Half-Life 2, that's dead. Valve's attitude seems to be that is a project falls apart, then it wasn't meant to be-and the anonymous source seems to think that hands-off approach spells doom for the future of the Half-Life franchise. There's one major problem with this type of development cycle: if the team members lose interest or hit a roadblock, that's likely to be the end of the project, as there's no higher driving force in the company greenlighting ideas, keeping the projects on a timeline, and allocating assets. (Image credit: Valve) Half-Life: Alyx is out today, its a great VR game and a great Half-Life game, and perhaps best of all we dont have to stop joking about 'Half-Life 3 confirmed'. Every time a Half-Life project gets some gravity and then collapses, it becomes harder for the next one to start up." They've had some different thoughts about what it should be. Its the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. "Some people-I don't want to name names-were excited about their projects. "I've heard that some teams have had two to three people working on it, and they eventually ran into a wall, and some teams may have gotten up to 30 or 40 people before it was scrapped," they said. The anonymous source estimates that various iterations of Half-Life 3 have been in development as early as 2005. Luckily, the Vortigaunts open their own portal through space and time, pulling Gordon to safety before the ship explodes. Upon glimpsing the Combine universe, Freeman realizes that their attack would be less than a flea's bite to the Combine. At the point of no return, the shadowy G-Man arrives, whisking Alyx away and leaving Freeman behind. Eventually Alyx wins the fight by killing Mossman, and they prepare a kamikaze run to destroy the Borealis within the Combine's invasion staging area. Mossman and Alyx argue over whether to preserve the ship or destroy it, as Alyx's father Eli wanted. One of the universes they observe appears to be a Combine hub preparing for a vast invasion. Once inside, they're flung and stretched between time and space, and things start to get weird. Judith Mossman, who helps them bring the Borealis into a brief window of coherence, which the trio uses to board the vessel. Breen's consciousness is now trapped inside a disgusting, slug-like creature-remember that "BreenGrub" Twitter account? Freeman complies when Breen begs them to kill him, and they resume their mission.
