{"id":44916,"date":"2012-09-20T17:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44916"},"modified":"2012-09-20T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:49:14","slug":"half-life-3-features-open-world-quests-and-npcs-claims-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44916-half-life-3-features-open-world-quests-and-npcs-claims-source","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life 3 features &#8220;open-world, quests and NPCs&#8221;, claims source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In news that comes with a complimentary 10kg hessian sack of sodium chloride, an anonymous source &#8220;close to Valve&#8221; has told a Greek website a whole bunch of &#8220;confidential details&#8221; about Half-Life 3.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=el&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journaldugamer.com%2F2012%2F09%2F17%2Fhalf-life-3-open-world%2F\" target=\"_blank\">charmingly quirky Google translation<\/a> of the article reveals that the game &#8220;will always be a very action-oriented, but with many RPG elements: open-world, quests and NPCs will be waiting for you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat more credibly, the game&#8217;s development has apparently been &#8220;very chaotic&#8221;, including &#8220;revisions total gameplay&#8221;, and will only launch &#8220;after 2013&#8221;, but everybody pretty much knew that already.<\/p>\n<p>Current trends in Half-Life 3 Delay Theory posit that the game&#8217;s ongoing no-show is partly due to the development of Valve&#8217;s next-gen Source engine, which is consistent with those last few claims. Or Valve just likes making people wait.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=el&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journaldugamer.com%2F2012%2F09%2F17%2Fhalf-life-3-open-world%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Journaldugamer<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxm.co.uk\/45973\/half-life-3-is-open-world-will-release-after-2013-valve-source\/\" target=\"_blank\">OXM<\/a>)<\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44515-gabe-newell-pillow-will-watch-you-sleep.html\">Gabe Newell pillow will watch you sleep<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42869-half-life-3-featured-on-gamescom-product-lineup.html\">Half-Life 3 featured on Gamescom product lineup [Update inside!]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42438-valves-next-gen-source-2-engine-in-the-works.html\">Valve\u2019s next-gen Source 2 engine in the works?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41221-valve-on-valve-time-we-like-it.html\">Valve on Valve Time: \u201cWe like it\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40415-half-life-2-episode-3-concept-art-leaked.html\">Half-Life 2: Episode 3 concept art leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your latest unsubstantiated Half-Life 3 rumours here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":37090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1343,773,697],"class_list":["post-44916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-half-life-3","tag-rumour","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44932,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916\/revisions\/44932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}