{"id":120214,"date":"2017-08-27T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T08:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120214"},"modified":"2017-08-25T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T12:45:46","slug":"ex-valve-writer-reveals-what-could-be-the-plot-of-half-life-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/120214-ex-valve-writer-reveals-what-could-be-the-plot-of-half-life-3","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Valve writer reveals what could be the plot of Half-Life 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former lead writer for the Half-Life series Marc Laidlaw has published the \u201cthird episode\u201d of Half-Life 2 to his\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marclaidlaw.com\/epistle-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His site appears to be overwhelmed by traffic following the publication of the post, and it may be read on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170825025137\/http:\/\/www.marclaidlaw.com\/epistle-3\/\">Archive.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cEpistle 3\u201d, the story is told in the form of a letter from \u201cGertrude Fremont, Ph.D\u201d, although fans of the series will recognise where he changed the names. A version of his post with the \u201ccorrect\u201d names is available on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pastebin.com\/q9DMFa7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pastebin<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Laidlaw\u2019s post comes three months after the last remaining writer who worked on the\u00a0Half-Life series,\u00a0Chet Faliszek,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/208964-last-half-life-writer-leaves-valve.html\">left Valve<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Laidlaw left Valve in 2016, while fellow writer Erik Wolpaw departed in February.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/219252-half-life-gets-a-new-patch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\">Half-Life gets a new patch<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former lead writer for the Half-Life series Marc Laidlaw has published the \u201cthird episode\u201d of Half-Life 2 to his\u00a0blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":89571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1834],"class_list":["post-120214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-half-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120216,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120214\/revisions\/120216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}