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Valve Plans For More Half-Life Beyond Episode 3

Posted by Zonk on from the hang-on-to-your-crowbar-indeed dept.

Ars Technica notes, via an interview at the StuffWeLike site, comments from Valve's Doug Lombardi indicating that the company has plans to continue the Half-Life series beyond Half-Life 2 Episode 3 . "While most sites are taking this as a confirmation of Half-Life 3, the quote is not a definitive on anything other than the continuation of the series. And, of course, there hasn't ever been so much as a rumor hinting at Half-Life's demise. As what is arguably the biggest franchise on the PC platform, there is no reason for Valve to stop producing the crowbar-swingin' good times."

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  1. I know Valve can do no wrong but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Can we all, as the gaming world, for once grow some balls and say no to one bad thing? Steam authentication to be allowed to play a single player game is a freaking bad idea!

    Holy crap, I know most of us sort of end up putting up with that shit from MS and hate it, but this is our culture, not some OS that'll be irrelevant in a few years time. I love to play Dungeon Keeper and other great, but old, games from time to time. What happens when the servers are down and you want to install and play HL2? What happens when you try to show your kid in a few years about the classic games that were the genesis of what they're used to? I would hope MS would serve as a shining example of why you should never bank on a software company's future promises.

    Seriously, fuck Valve. I loved HL, and I blame them for screwing the whole thing up, and not only with the HL series, but a bunch of other games that get sucked into this idea that content producers should perpetually "own" the minute you decide you want to consume their product (I'm looking at you Sin).

    All the morons that consume movies had enough sense to let DIVX (not the codec) die, and yet apparently we videogamers are too much of a bunch of crackheads to do the same, how can we be dumber than those people?

    Please, please dump your money for Valve releases into Stardock and their video games. Try using TotalGaming.NET, it's way more free than Steam, with volume their title selection will only get better (it's not horrible right now but it's no Steam).