Kotaku Gallery: Half-Life 2: Episode Three
April/May, 2006
Kotaku Timeline: Half-Life 2: Episode Three
Remember when you first finished Half-Life 2: Episode 2? The excitement? The shock? You were ready to set out with Alyx at your side, ready to show those alien bastards who's boss. The trilogy, and with it, the Combine's rule over Earth, would end soon.
Gabe Newell Updates Interviewer On The Status of (Wink, Wink) 'Ricochet 2'
After asking Valve Software boss Gabe Newell a bunch of questions about the Half-Life games on the new Seven Day Cooldown podcast, an interviewer finally cut to the chase:
There Is Half-Life Stuff Hiding in Counter-Strike: GO
The people at Valve Software like to tease. They don't, however, like to confirm the existence of new Half-Life games.
An Exclusive Tour of Valve Software, the Place Where Portal, Half-Life, and Team Fortress Come to Life
Valve Software's Chet Faliszek recently gave me a tour of his company's Belleveue headquarters, a final act of kindness during a visit in which Chet also let me play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and eat catered tacos.
What Did Gabe Newell Say to the Half-Life 3 Protesters?
Where the hell is the next Half-Life game? That's what two Vancouver-based Valve fans wanted to know when they set up shop opposite the headquarters of the people criminally late on shipping Half-Life 2: Episode Three. Valve founder Gabe Newell met with those "protesters" to deliver them good news and bad.
Valve's Gabe Newell Predicts Gaming's Future, Not Talking About "Episode Three"
After Valve's Gabe Newell was honored as a Pioneer at the GDC Awards, I asked him to predict gaming's future and to offer more Portal 2 teases, a Half-Life 2: Episode 3 update and Pokemon tips. My success rate: 50%.
No New Half-Life Coming In 2010, Says Game Informer
The latest issue of Game Informer magazine has a bit of potential bad news for Gordon Freeman fans, casting doubt on the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Three in 2010.
So, *How* Long Until Half-Life 2: Episode Three?
If there's one thing Valve excels at, it's making us wait. If you thought the wait between Half-Life 2 and the episodes that followed it were long, expect to wait even longer for the third (and final?) episode in the continuing adventures of Gordon Freeman. Valve's marketing man Doug Lombardi tells Kikizo that Episode…
First Look At Half-Life 2: Episode Three
The official Into The Pixel web site gives us our first conceptual look at Half-Life 2: Episode Three with this moody painting of, we assume, protagonist Gordon Freeman facing down the Advisor seen in previous episodes. Obviously, fans of the game know that Gordon has a serious beef with the Combine following the…
