Valve to Planet Earth: “You are being trolled” about Half-Life 3

29 December 2011
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So, apparently, this guy I know heard from a friend who heard from a cousin who heard from an ex who heard from a talking dog who heard from somebody else who heard from this person who works at Valve that Half-Life 3.

Or something like that, it was a bit vague. Is it true?! Nah.

Since a photo of a Valve employee wearing a Half-Life 3 T-shirt turned up on the intertubes a few weeks back, gamers have been finding secret messages and revelations about the game everywhere. Unfortunately, it’s all just wishful thinking and trolls.

Half-Life 3 shirt

Half-Life 3 shirt

Valve’s Chet Faliszek has officially denied any and all rumours of the game over on the Steam forums:

You are being trolled.

There is no ARG.

Wheatley’s speech was set in Portal 2 fiction – that is all.

There has been no directive from Gabe to leak anything. That is all false.

I just want to say this so there is no confusion. This is the community trolling the community nothing more. While it is nice to see people excited about anything HL, I hate seeing people be trolled like this.

Thanks

So that’s that. Although, they would say that, wouldn’t they? I mean, that’s just part of the elaborate marketing. And look at this:

You are being trolled.

There is no ARG.

Wheatley’s speech was set in Portal 2 fiction that is all.
There has been no directive from Gabe to leak anything. That is all false.

I just want to say this so there is no confusion. This is the community trolling the community nothing more. While it is nice to see people excited about anything HL, I hate seeing people be trolled like this.

Thanks

If you rearrange the red letters and the dash (a; i; h; l; f; -; l; f; e) it spells Half-Life. And wait, there are 73 words in the message. That’s a prime number, and so is the number 3! OH. EM. GEE. I think we’re onto something here, guys. I bet if we can decode the whole message, we’ll find the game’s source code.

Source: GamingBolt
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