“Everybody I’ve talked to are still adamant,” even after previous rumors didn’t pan out.
  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    This is your reminder that there were more credible leaks for HL3 when the Xbox 360 was the flagship console.

  • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    32·
    13 hours ago

    THIS JUST IN: Person says thing, gives no evidence.

    We’ll be back at 11 for your evening updates!

    • Slyke@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Not the first time I’ve heard this. There was a leak that was very quickly deleted where it mentioned Valve were using some type of custom GPT for calculating physics (instead of for LLMs). So instead of doing actual complex physics calculations for environmental destruction, a GPT type AI would be doing it.

      Obviously its to go in tandem with their current physics, just offloading specific stuff to the AI. It’s apparently very good.

      Source is trust me bro, but we’ll find out soon enough I guess.

      • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        39 minutes ago

        Coming in now with a live news update: another person says a different thing, gives no evidence.

        We’ll be back with the morning announcements

  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    13 hours ago

    Just to be clear, I down voted this because it’s an article about rumors originating from unnamed sources being talked about by a gaming journalist via his podcast. May as well just print the article out and wipe your ass with it.

  • rustyfish@piefed.worldEnglish
    21·
    15 hours ago

    I hereby pledge to donate 500€ to ablegamers if HL3 becomes a launch title for the Gabe Cube. This is not a joke.

    Still pretty sure my money is safe and it will be released after Winds of Winter. Which in turn will be released after the heat death of the universe.

    • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      If it does come out, you should post a screenshot shot of this message and your donation receipt in pcgaming.

      • rustyfish@piefed.worldEnglish
        8·
        14 hours ago

        That’s the plan. Kinda. Honestly I really don’t believe this article or any other bs with their HL3 leaks. Shit got old 20 years ago.

        But IF it happens: I will.

      • alessandro@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        14 hours ago

        Ricochet 2 will be sort of Valve’s Smash Brothers with all the characters from Half Life, Portal, Team Fortess and Left4Dead… and it will be cannon tied in a single Valve’s Multiverse.

        Still not “3” for any of them tho.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    47·
    22 hours ago

    The most rational explanation I can think of is that it’s a planted leak to figure out who’s leaking.

    Either that or just extreme wishful thinking.

  • Nik282000@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    18 hours ago

    The devs explicitly stated in the HL2 commentary that HL3 was not being worked on and that they had no plans on resuming development.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        6·
        15 hours ago

        They have repeated that line in more recent interviews, also. The last big news that had any official statements about it was that the writer had some ideas, but the way Valve operates he can’t get enough interested team members together to actually do anything. Nobody else really wants to work on it; they have other interesting projects they would prefer to work on.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        … You… don’t think they already locked in at least an initial tranch of component supply, retooled their factory and warehousing spaces, and have been churning some number of these things out… for some weeks or months already?

        You normally don’t uh, instantly assemble tens or hundreds of thousands of computers, the week before product launch… you work out an entire time line of prep for sourcing, assembly and storage, you do that quarters before hand, and then start doing assembly, and then release when you think you have enough to sate initial demand.

        And you’ll even do parts of that before the design spec itself is totally finalzed in all ways, often times.

        Also…the Steam Machine uses LPDDR5 RAM, as the Steam Deck does.

        Its already, literally physically soldered onto the mainboard.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        6·
        19 hours ago

        RAM prices will impact all computers, including consoles, so while it will undoubtedly negatively impact sales, at least it will impact them across the board.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    20 hours ago

    There were so many suggestions and prediction about Half-Life 3, that I cannot take anyone doing it seriously anymore. There were suggestions Half-Life 3 could be announced at the Summer Games Fest in example. I don’t expect the game to launch with the system, despite it would be the “perfect” opportunity. But someone said it could, so people start believing it will. And off course they will write articles about rumors, because that generates hot link of clicks.

  • witty_username@feddit.nlEnglish
    14·
    22 hours ago

    So what would the major innovation be? Running native under Linux? That seems too little focused on the game itself… Would it be the vr? That doesn’t seem novel enough given Alyx…

    Edit: Oh no. Is it going to be AI of some sort? AI dialogue or something?

    Edit 2: Co-op vr campaign? With a game director like in l4d, but then much more sophisticated