#Half life 2 episode 3 fan art update#

вЂњJust so you know, the thing to me, that feels right, is the rhythm that Robin and his team are operating with. But, weвЂ™re happy with that choice that we made.вЂќДЄfter Gabe was asked if weвЂ™ll hear any further details (or video) about Episode 3 by the end of 2009, he continued talking without giving an answer: The speed with which these updates are coming out, people say, вЂњHey, gee, these episodes are supposed to be shorter and you take 25 years to ship each one.вЂќ So, I donвЂ™t wanna somehow dismiss those, or sort of throw them under вЂ“ but I think weвЂ™re in much better shape than would have been, in terms of our ability to move stuff, technology, products, uh, forward faster by changing how, ya know, being different than, ya know, there was Half-Life 2 and then there was post-Half-Life 2 in terms of how we were approaching these things and yea, I think that weвЂ™re overall pretty happy without somehow dismissing the legitimate complaints that people should have towards us. So, I think thereвЂ™s frustration there and IвЂ™m not somehow going to say that thatвЂ™s not legitimate or length isnвЂ™t a concern or regularity. вЂњI get a ton of email everyday saying why arenвЂ™t you talking about Episode 3? And there are very good reasons why weвЂ™re not talking about Episode 3, which I canвЂ™t talk about yet, but I will.

#Half life 2 episode 3 fan art update#

UPDATE June 10, 2009: Valve co-founder Gabe Newell was asked on the G4 TV channel why we havenвЂ™t heard anything about Episode 3 at E3 2009? To quote GabeвЂ™s answer: UPDATE October 14, 2008: Valve marketing director Doug Lombardi has said in an interview with Kikizo that they вЂњmay at the very end of the year.вЂќ Although he cryptically added it may take a while longer for it to come out, by saying that вЂњThe next time you play as Gordon will be longer than the distance between HL2 to Ep1, and Ep1 to Ep2.вЂќ The Borealis contained ApertureвЂ™s version of the teleportation technology (different from Black MesaвЂ™s) but the ship was never commissioned and disappeared with all hands and parts of the dry dock from the shipyard, until appearing in the ice locked northern seas at the end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

Perhaps this is the same environment where the 2007 concept art of the Aperture Laboratories ice breaker / research ship, the Borealis, takes place. Now we just wait for somebody over at Valve HQ to tell everybody theyвЂ™re fake and/or that Half-Life 3 is cancelled, anyway.This concept art shows Half-Life protagonist Gordon Freeman within a large Citadel-like environment as an evil Combine Advisor hovers over his head.ДЄRTISTS: Ted Backman, Jeremy Bennett, Tristan Reidford

Interestingly enough, however, a moderator on the Steam forum has claimed theyвЂ™re legit, saying вЂњThis is official art, and IвЂ™m shocked that this day has come!вЂќ When queried further, the same moderator explained that вЂњI know who the source is, but IвЂ™m not going to give it away just yet for exclusivity reasons.вЂќ Including the game actually being a thing that will actually be released, actually.ДЄmong other things, the images show the chopper from the end of Episode 2, crashed in an arctic setting with some sort of Combine structure in the background, as well as a Combine advisor, and support-protagonist Alyx Vance in a number of winter woolly outfits. Alleged concept art, mind you, and described as вЂњcirca 2008вЂќ, meaning that even if theyвЂ™re real, everything could have changed by now.

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is back in the news today (is it ever really out of the news, though?) after a fan site leaked a bunch of concept art images from the game onto Facebook.