Valve Guy Makes His Half-Life 3 T-Shirt Talk

[Andy Chalk]

Valve Guy Makes His Half-Life 3 T-Shirt Talk

Some random Valve guy has been spotted wearing a Half-Life 3 t-shirt!

This is big news, kids. Last night, a Valve employee who is not Gabe Newell, Doug Lombardi or the OMM guys was spotted gallivanting around town in a Half-Life 3 t-shirt. That's right - Half-Life 3!

"All I'm saying is I saw this at a local game developer event worn by a Valve employee," Chandana Ekanayake, art director and executive producer at tweeted [http://www.mondaynightcombat.com/] last night. The tweet also included a photograph of said t-shirt and the hashtags #Halflife3 and #ValveTrolling.

What could it mean? Possibly that work on Half-Life 3 is actually underway in a locked room in the deepest, darkest bowels of Valve headquarters, or possibly that Valve ordered a bunch of these things back in 2007, this guy found a box of them in a closet somewhere and decided to wear one out in public to mess with the internet. I would say it's pretty much a 50/50 situation.

Whatever the case, Anonymous Valve Man clearly didn't have a problem with the world finding out about his duds. "I asked him if it was OK to take the photo and he was cool with it. You never know with Valve," Ekanayake tweeted later. "I did try to smother my face in his chest on the HL3 logo. He didn't even spoon me back. Jerk."

I would've been a whole lot happier to see someone sporting an Episode 3 shirt instead of Half-Life 3, but after four years of waiting I suppose I should just take what I can get.


Permalink

 

[RoboGeek]

that guy must be the biggest troll ever

 

[NathLines]

What I think? The trolling is strong in this one.

 

[ResonanceGames]

This reeks of rumor, but Valve just might be crazy enough to do something like this. Holy crap.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

I'm willing to let it put my hopes up, but my heart is not set on the idea.

I'll agree with you Andy, cautiously optimistic.

 

[Omega500]

Must make a BF3 dino shirt

 

[TitanAtlas]

Trolling at it's finest....

But even i have to admit... i'm having some hopes deep down on my heart. It's like i know i'm being trolled, and yet i want to be fooled in the hopes of this being true :S

 

[TRR]

Yeah I'm not falling for this, the warping on the logo reeks of home-made.
Plus Valve isn't this stupid.

Of course I could always be wrong....

 

[TRR]

HOLD ON. THE LOGO IS REVERSED!
It's supposed to be lambda in the middle with the 3 in the upper right corner.

edit: yes this revelation deserves its own post

 

[Evilsanta]

God damn you Valve! Why must thou torture me like this!? WHY!?

OT: Argh, Valve if you be trolling I am not going to buy any more games from steam...Atleast to the next sale...

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Wait, why would Episode 3 be better then a full sequel? The only difference between the two is that a full sequel would be a longer game.

 

[gigastar]

Wait, why would Episode 3 be better then a full sequel? The only difference between the two is that a full sequel would be a longer game.

I think that since Episode 3 was supposed to be released in 2009 at the latest, that is before Valve Time struck, that Half Life fans are entitled to a full sequel by now. That and Episode 1 and 2 were supposed to be titled Half Life 3, but that never made it to the end for whatever reason.

Still until Valve actually says something im putting this down to pure, hard trolling.

 

[krychek57]

HOLD ON. THE LOGO IS REVERSED!
It's supposed to be lambda in the middle with the 3 in the upper right corner.

edit: yes this revelation deserves its own post

My Spidey senses are tingling with Valve trolling. Google image search shows you are correct.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

You've heard it's going to be re-made as a Turn Based Strategy?

 

[Wieke]

Wait, why would Episode 3 be better then a full sequel? The only difference between the two is that a full sequel would be a longer game.

Yeah as long as the story picks up directly after the events of ep2 i'll be fine with it. (Gotta get my revenge on, damn those advisers!!!!)

 

[aashell13]

What could it mean? Possibly that work on Half-Life 3 is actually underway in a locked room in the deepest, darkest bowels of Valve headquarters, or possibly that Valve ordered a bunch of these things back in 2007, this guy found a box of them in a closet somewhere and decided to wear one out in public to mess with the internet.

I'm guessing the latter. then again, it is just a T-shirt, and literally anybody can cook up a T-shirt, so this might not have anything to do with anything at all.

 

[kebab4you]

Half Life 3 is the name of the new big update for TF2, silly people that don't know that.

 

[ResonanceGames]

HOLD ON. THE LOGO IS REVERSED!
It's supposed to be lambda in the middle with the 3 in the upper right corner.

edit: yes this revelation deserves its own post

Considering the fact that there is no publicly available HL3 logo, I don't really see your point. Just because the last two games had the lambda in the middle doesn't mean they would stick with that formula for the third one.

That said, I too, am leaning toward hoaxery.