{"id":55738,"date":"2013-06-27T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=55738"},"modified":"2013-06-27T17:40:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:40:41","slug":"half-life-3-tease-a-joke-pc-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/55738-half-life-3-tease-a-joke-pc-gamer","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life 3 tease a joke: PC Gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the July 2013 issue of PC Gamer magazine, a preview for what\u2019s coming up in the August edition showed a supposed Half-Life 3 reveal<\/a>; the internet was set on fire – but it\u2019s all a big joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the joke page at the back of the mag. Every month we close off with something that we hope will make our readers laugh, and it\u2019s usually based on the feature on the cover. For this issue, we thought we\u2019d make fun of Valve,\u201d said Chris Thurston of PC Gamer.<\/p>\n

Thurston was referring to the time he visited Valve to do a feature on Dota 2, where he got nothing out of the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I was there, I asked no questions and received no answers about Half-Life 3. I\u2019m as excited about it as anyone, but if Valve were planning to announce anything through me I assume I would know about it in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Thurston thought he\u2019d create a joke about Valve\u2019s secrecy in the magazine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result was a fake elevator control panel with funny names for various floors in their building. Following yesterday\u2019s Half-Life 2 patch, a lot of people have become convinced that it\u2019s all part of an elaborate scheme to reveal the long-awaited sequel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The image, which was created by PC Gamer\u2019s art editor, featured some other comically-named floors, which Thurston also clarified.<\/p>\n

\u201cValve also doesn\u2019t have a floor dedicated to knives. As far as I know, there\u2019s no \u2018Money Hose Control Centre\u2019. \u2018Laser Bay 2\u2032 is an oblique reference to Tron.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, there\u2019s no Half-Life 3 for now, unless Valve threatened to drown Thurston with the money hose!?<\/p>\n

\"PC<\/a>

PC Gamer art editor Julian designing the backpage joke image.<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: PC Gamer<\/a><\/h6>\n

More Valve news:<\/h3>\n

New Steam weekly deals arrive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Steam to allow game-sharing?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Valve launches Overwatch for community policing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dota 2 breaks Steam record, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC Gamer clears up the rumours and speculation surrounding their August issue preview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50540,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1812,1834,1343,21,773,597,697],"class_list":["post-55738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-advert","tag-half-life","tag-half-life-3","tag-headline","tag-rumour","tag-tease","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55738","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55741,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55738\/revisions\/55741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}