Valve 通过官方提及 HLX 引发新的 Half-Life 3 期待

At this point, Half-Life 3 has become a meme for its ability to get gamers excited at even the slightest whiff of a mention of its name. For a while now, however, there have been rumors circulating about a Valve project called HLX, which is ostensibly Valve's internal name for a new Half-Life project that some have theorized may be Half-Life 3.

In a recent clip from a Valve Q&A panel at GameSoundCon (shared by @Tyler_McV on X), while addressing a question about HDR implementations in different games, a Valve employee, Mike Morasky, says that "I think Deadlock has their own version of HDR. HLX has its own version, so on and so forth." This mention of HLX is what Half-Life 3 hopefuls have latched onto as evidence of confirmation of the game by Valve itself.

Previously, rumors suggested that Valve already had a fully playable Half-Life 3 game internally, and there were rumors floating around leading up to the launch of the Steam Machine that the game would launch alongside Valve's living room console.