Half-Life 3 is not in active development, and Valve is instead focusing on Steam Deck friendly titles, according to a report. Tylver McVicker of Valve News Network states in a new video that according to his sources, there is no sequel to Half-Life 2: Episode Two currently being developed. “To get the big question out of the way, is there a In early 2009, the Purchase Brothers, a Toronto-based film company, released a five-minute film based on Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life: Escape from City 17. The film combines live-action footage with 3D animation created using the Source SDK. It was well received by Valve. On August 25, 2010 they released a nearly 15-minute-long sequel. Valve has long since moved on from the episodic format. 2006, the article explains that Valve had finished work on Episode 1 and expected Half-Life 2: Episode 2 to release by the end of 2006 The good news is that the Half-Life community is still alive and thriving. Members of the community started a new Half-Life project under the codename “Borealis.”. Fan made Half-Life 2 Episode 3 Project Borealis uses a highly modified Unreal Engine 4. Unlike the traditional Half-Life engine (Source Engine), Unreal Engine 4 is a well-rounded But due to a DOTA 2 beta tester's decision to leak the game's client system, we may have some legitimate Episode 3 information. Oh. My. Freeman. Half-Life 2 seems to have cemented its position as It's been quite some time since we last updated you on our mod, Half-Life 2 Episode 3: The Return. We're excited to announce that the mod is now approximately 65% complete! The bulk of our efforts have been focused on creating an immersive and engaging arctic environment for the player to explore. Starting in around July 2008, development of Half-Life 2 Episode 3 was pretty much complete. Both the developers and Valve decided that the work that was done, whIle good, wasn't the best way to end the series off on an already ancient engine. The developers almost all moved over to other projects such as Portal 2, L4D2, L4D3, VR, TF2, and CSGO. Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2: Episode 1. Half-Life 2: Episode 2. The episodes were basically expansions and they never released a third one unfortunately, just left the game on a cliffhanger. I can see why the naming system is confusing though since 'Episode 1' is the second part of the Half-Life 2 story. The episodes aren't included by default in The lead Half-Life 2 art guy left long ago because "Valve stopped making games" and because they no longer were a small team of ambitious developers who made big title games. Seeing how he designed all the iconic Half-Life art it was pretty much over already back then. Over a decade ago, Valve began releasing smaller episodic sequels to 2004’s iconic Half-Life 2. These shorter, standalone games continued the story of Gordon Freeman and the human resistance 5bVxy5.