Half-Life 3 speculation has been off the rails lately, with the new Steam hardware reveal sparking a wave of rumors about a possible announcement being imminent. Anticipation for an HL3 announcement is so high that players have their fingers crossed for a reveal at this year's The Game Awards. While there's still no official word from Valve on Half-Life 3 and ultimately no reason to think there will be, a major new leak suggests otherwise.
According to the same source (via X) behind the recent huge Resident Evil 9 leak, Half-Life 3 will be titled Half-Life: Xen and will be getting an official reveal at this year's The Game Awards on December 11. Further, the leaker claims the next Half-Life title will be released in March 2026.
The leak from the Resident Evil 9 source about Half-Life 3 is highly suspect, though fans are quick to ingest as much hopium as they can ahead of The Game Awards if it means there's a snowball's chance in hell that HL3 will actually get a reveal. Players on Reddit have their share of doubts, wondering why they would ever call it "Half-Life: Xen" when "HLX is...
