If you can go back to early 2025, you might remember fresh wave from rumors assuming that Half-life 3 has finally reached the final stages of production and could be announced and/or released at any moment. However, now 2025 seems to be coming to an end without any official news about the game's fans. waiting literal decades For.
This doesn't necessarily mean Half-life 3 However, an announcement and/or release is not imminent. On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted in a recent Insider Gaming podcast that “everyone I've talked to is still adamant [Half-Life 3] this is a launch game for the Steam Machine.”
Straw – who has it? along story from reporting gaming rumors from anonymous sources– said this Half-life 3 information “not [from] these run-of-the-mill sources that didn't give me information before. … These are not random, isolated people.” And those sources “remain adamant that the game will release in the spring,” Straw added, noting that he was “specifically told [that] spring 2026 [is the window] for steam engine, for frame, for controller, [and] For Half-life 3“
For real this time?
Binding the long-awaited Half-life 3 to a major hardware push that an early 2026 window has already been announced. certainly sounds plausible given previous leaks about the game's advanced stage of development. But there are still some reasons to doubt the “inflexibility” of Straw's sources.
First, Straw acknowledged that previous information he had received about potential Half-life 3 Launch dates and/or announcements were not reliable enough to provide details. “They gave me a date. I wasn't going to give that date because they weren't 100 percent sure of that date,” he said. “That date has already passed.”
