"You know what? This is for all of you who have ever made fun of us for 'not being able to count to three'. Three-person shooter fest... what? Yep, third makes more sense, okay, that's embarrassing," Emmy-nominated host and Valve PR representative Kaci Aitchison Boyle mused in the Steam Third-Person Shooter Fest trailer, just a month after jokingly announcing Season 2: Episode One for Counter-Strike 2.
Like Snarks to a Black Mesa scientist, Half-Life fans descended on this joke without hesitation. Speculation is running rampant, and leading the charge is u/ChaosFulcrum. They pointed out that, other than a Chalkeaters music video, Valve hasn't made any 'can't count to three' jokes since 2019, when Gabe Newell teased that, "Maybe someday, the number two will lead us to that shiny integer glowing on the mountain somewhere". Later that year, Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx. So... Half-Life 3 confirmed?
Yeah, it's probably copium, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally launching in two weeks, so it's time for Half-Life fans to pick up the slack. With all the HLX leaks pointing to a non-VR, Gordon Freeman-helmed sequel nearing the end of development, everyone is waiting on tenterhooks for...
