Half-Life 3 European Trademark Filing Disappears

[Strazdas]

Half-Life 3 would be a killer app for the steam machine?

probably unintentionally but hilariuos as hell. Back before the whole craze about renamingp rograms to "Apps", the temr used to stand for variuos cracks, modifiers and simular stuff, often laced with viruses and whatnot, so a "killer app" was a reference to a crack that would infect you with a virus that would make your machine overheat itself and burn, with smoke. so a "Steam" coming from a machine, caused by a killer app is just so Half-life

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

It tickles me so much that people actually allow themselves to get excited about something that doesn't exist before it's proven and released. I'm also amused at how people continue to support episodic gaming. More than that, would anyone really expect the game, should it ever be release, of Half Life 3 to live up to it's own hype? Have people learned nothing from Duke Nukem Forever?

Difference is that Duke Nukem Forever was cancelled before it was finished, and then hurriedly assembled by desperate jobless ex-team members. Remember: Team Fortress 2 was in development longer than Duke Nukem Forever! And that one turned out pretty okay, eh? (It's also worth noting that, like with TF2, Valve is well-known to run products all the way through to at least early beta and then scrap them and do something else. TF2 had two prior games under its title. Portal 2 used to be a Portal-less game called F-Stop. Half-Life 2 had a leaked beta around 2003 that had major changes to the released, 2004 product.)

 

[Saelune]

They should be like Bethesda. They had "Skyrim" mysteriously trademarked like, 2 years before even announcing TESV.