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This week we discuss an X Post from the Voice Actor for G-Man in the famed Half Life series has sparked NEW speculation that Half-Life 3 may be imminent! Can valve finally count to three? Happy New Years!
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So now we have to have fresh rumors, fresh rumors that Valve might learn to count to
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three.
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That's right, a new rumor that Half-Life 3 might be imminent.
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Now before the last couple of Half-Life releases, the voice actor who plays G-Man who's a major
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character in the Half-Life series dropped a cryptic post on Twitter on New Year's Eve
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leading to fresh speculation that Half-Life 3 might be coming only 21 years, 21 years
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after Half-Life 2.
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Okay, all hail Lord Gabon.
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So the two questions we're going to answer is do we think it's actually coming or is
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this another set of silly things to get Gamer's hopes up?
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And if so, what does this mean for launches in 2025?
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I want to believe I do.
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I just love how you're like, I'm tired of waiting three years in between seasons and
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then you're like, it's been 21 years since Half-Life 2.
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Oh, somebody had the chance, like nope, not a chance.
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So the reason this sparked a bunch of stuff over at Windows Central is the guy who plays
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G-Man, he's done this before, right?
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He uses G-Man voice, he uses the voice of Barnacle Hoon.
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He has not posted anything on Twitter since the release window of Half-Life Alex, which
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was the last kind of follow-up they did.
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He only ever posted about Half-Life, that's it.
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This is not like something he, like an account he uses all the time, right?
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So I want to believe, I really do.
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I really, really do.
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This is obviously Half-Life 2 and Half-Life Invalid Not Counting to 3 has been a meme
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for a long time.
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People have been waiting for Half-Life 3 for literally two decades.
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Two decades.
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Yeah.
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What do you think, Jay?
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What's the likelihood that Valve actually releases a video game this year?
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I mean, from what I know, I would not put money on it.
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If I was a gambling man, I would put my money on black rather than put money on the fact
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that Valve's going to come out with a game this year.
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I don't know.
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That's me.
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I've been playing for 21 years.
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It's been a long time.
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But, I mean, we are seeing a lot of, and also in the movie, right?
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In the movie world, we're seeing a lot of movies come back.
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I mean, how long was it between Super Troopers and Super Troopers 2?
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Oh, God.
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How long was Beetlejuice and Beetlejuice 2?
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Yeah.
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So I mean, it's possible.
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Yeah.
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It's not a zero chance.
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It's a near zero chance, but I don't know.
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I wouldn't put money on it.
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Somebody with a chance they gave on the phone with him, hey, want to screw with the fans?
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I'll cut you a check if you post this.
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And again, Lord knows Valve has the money.
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You know, sort of lauders online distributor of video games on the planet.
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This is what they do.
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These guys print cash.
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I want to believe.
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They're the half-life games.
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In my opinion, they are some of the best first-person shooters that have ever been released in the
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history of video games.
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They gave birth to Team Fortress, which obviously is one of the longest running online shooter
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games that's ever existed.
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It gave birth to Counterstrike.
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It gave birth to all of this.
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It came from the Half-Life 2 engine, or the Half-Life engine.
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The memes around Half-Life have been around forever.
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This is early internet shit because it's Half-Life.
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Again, I want to believe.
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But again, it's been 20 years and Valve does things at the speed of whenever the hell we
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feel like it.
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You know, yes, to the chat.
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Valve does own state.
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And they're right here in the good old Pacific Northwest.
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This is where they are based.
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They're less than 20 miles from where I'm sitting right now.
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Again, I would love to see it.
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I don't know if we're going to see it.
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But the fact that this level of a Twitter post from one of the voice actors involved
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gets everybody like, there's multiple news articles out there right now.
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Is it finally coming?
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Right?
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Like it's insane.
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It's insane.
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Series is dead.
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I don't know.
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PC games has the thing.
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The gamer has the thing.
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There's...
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I don't know.
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We've exceeded the half life on the series.
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Again, I don't know.
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I think so.
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This is the thing.
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The biggest launch this year is supposed to be GTA 6.
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And it's actually...
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There's been some articles about this.
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There's a bunch of video game companies that are pissed right now at Rockstar because Rockstar
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refuses to say when they're dropping it.
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And nobody, nobody in the video game industry wants to be within six weeks of GTA 6.
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They just don't.
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They don't release just...
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And they're like...
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And there's been talk behind the scenes that a bunch of the studios have reached out to
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Rockstar and said, can you please...
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We know it's coming in 2025.
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We know.
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Okay?
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You've made that clear.
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When?
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Because if it's September, we'll leave you alone.
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We will literally...
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We'll move.
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We just...
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But tell us something.
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Give us anything on when GTA 6 is going to release because they don't want to release
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near it.
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Half-Life 3 is a similar type of project that I think if they announce it, it'll break the
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internet.
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I think everybody will lose their crap.
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Yeah.
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And somebody in the chat is saying they're agreeing with how Valve does their project.
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They said if Half-Life 3 does the same thing, then it completely changes the video game
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release schedule for the entire year.
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This is something that is understandable, but it's kind of frustrating because movies
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don't do things like this.
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Movie release dates are set two years out.
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So it gives the studios the opportunity to move around and be like, you know what?
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We don't think competing with X-movie is going to be good for us.
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So we're going to shift two weekends over.
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We're going to move to this.
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You know.
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So I...
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Come on gaming industry.
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Get smart.
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Stop fucking with us.
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Anyway, what do you think?
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Do you think it's Half-Life year?
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Are we finally going to get Half-Life 3?
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If it does, does it completely...
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Does it completely fuck rock stars release timing for GTA 6?
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I don't know.
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I...
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I think they're like two separate like markets.
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Oh, no.
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GTA 6, I think it's a much like more mainstream market, but goddamn, the hardcore gamers are
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going to lose their crap.
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Yeah, hardcore gamers are, but like you're, I don't know, Gen Zers are just going to care
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about like GTA 6.
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Valid.
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But do they have any money is the question?
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Of course, the guy's like, you would meet that have all the money to buy things.
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That's also true.
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Anyway, let us know what you think down in the comments below.