What are Valves three big surprises?

[Kedgeree]

1) Boxing match between Gabe and Kotick
2) ?????
3) PROFIT!

Oh dear god this. I want to see that so badly. Just the thought of it is enough to blow minds.

OT: I have the feeling one of them might be related to Half-Life. But I don't know, Valve tend to be sneaky with these things, like the Portal 2 announcements.

 

[CakeDragon]

1) Half Life 3 will be released about December 1st, no hype whatsoever to create a media storm and absolute chaos in games stores and online
2) The world will now run on Valve time
3) A paper will be released existentially proving that the cake is, once and for all, not a lie

 

[Amnestic]

Defense Of The Ancients - They bought the name, that's it.

They hired IceFrog too as I recall, lending even more credence to that point.

 

[The Cheezy One]

a mix of half life and left 4 dead
Left 2 Life.
or half 4 dead
"life." "you mean half life 2?" yeah - life"

 

[mParadox]

I am rooting for a new Source Engine.

A hint about Ep3 would be nice.

DoTA would be a very nice gesture to RTS fans.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Spoiler: The First Surprise

Half

Spoiler: The Second Surprise

Life

Spoiler: The Third Surprise

3

 

[willsham45]

Free Melons to be handed out with all games

 

[Russian_Assassin]

It isn't going to Be half life 2: Episode 3 or Half life 3. Valve are going to make us wait just a little bit longer...

3-4 billion years.

Whatever it is, I will eventually buy it.

 

[Akatosh3]

IF THEY MAKE ANOTHER LEFT4DEAD I WILL, I WILL... probably buy it for 50% off during a Steam sale.

 

[Desert Tiger]

Something tells me it's gonna be about Steamworks, the whole thing with Steam and PS3.

 

[Jandau]

1. A new skin/redesign for Steam
2. A new DLC for L4D2
3. New hats for TF2

There, that would about cover it as far as Valve goes...

 

[Csae]

All thats missing now is Hats for L4D2.

Thats right, you too can play as Nick with a purple fedora, or ellis with a sombrero.

 

[Wintermoot]

1.HL2 EP3
2.????
3.PROFIT!

 

[DTWolfwood]

New Source Engine. Source 2!

HL3 before HL2EP3!

RICOCHET 2!!!! (yeah for anyone who even remember the first game, shame on you! XD)

 

[Delock]

1. Our Half-Life announcement is... John Freeman is now canon *cue fanboy tears*
2. Ok, we're just kidding, it's actually... Gordon Frohman who's canon *cue more tears*
3. We're just screwing with you. Half-life 2: Episode 3 will be in the polishing stage soon. We make sure to polish our games in the tears of fans, so thanks for helping.

Valve, I kid. This seems more like something Kotick would think up (and then he would sell the game in 3 installments, with the cutscenes sold seperately).

 

[individual11]

1) Black Mesa Theme Park, with Team Fortress paintball arena.

2) Reboot of the Half-life franchise, done as MMORPG.

3) Valve merger with Activision.

 

[TheRobotandtheBeast]

1. They are being bought by Activision

2. Steam is to be run directly by Bobby kotick

3. Half-life 3 was in development but was seen as a bad investment by the talking heads at Acti hq and was cancelled and burned while Gabe cried.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Definitely something about console updates and DLC for TF2 as they have finished main updates and they said after that happened they would update it for consoles so that is something I would be willing to bet on coming soon.

Something about HL EP3 or HL3 to be released on X date + Valve Time.

And now for something completely different.

 

[fenderstrat]

portal 2, l4d3 and ep3?

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Something about PS3
Possibly the TF2 next class that was referenced in L4D
New L4D/L4D2 DLC or something...