Rumours: Playtesting for Half Life 3 is already underway by Valve

Half-Life 3 is among one of the most anticipated games, and a new rumour suggests that people might finally get a first look at the game next year. The report comes from a recent video from popular data miner Gabe Follower, who explains their reasoning why 2025 might be the year Valve finally announced Half-Life 3.

Gabe Follower has been on the trailer for Half-Life 3 for the last few months and have reportedly found various pieces of evidence pointing towards a new Half-Life game. It’s been almost two decades since the last mainline entry in the Half-Life franchise was released, and the term “HLX” has been floating around for a while.

Source: Valve started playtesting the new Half-Life 3 game with a small group of friends and family.

Watch it here - https://t.co/2lpKw4nfuPpic.twitter.com/77P5bMnRLD

— ‎Gabe Follower (@gabefollower) December 28, 2024

“According to my information, in the last few months, Valve has started active HLX playtests. Now not only with people from other teams, but also friends and family members,” Gabe Follower said. To back his statement, Gab Follower also mentions that Valve has been hiring a lot of character artists, environment artists and devs.

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When is Half Life 3 releasing?

There were a lot of rumours regarding what may be present inside Half-Life 3 but as usual, anything related to the release remains a huge mystery. A few weeks back during the Game Awards, there were rumours that Valve may announce the game, but that did not happen.

“If it survives the New Year holidays and there are no serious problems during these playtests with the close circle of people, then the development will continue at the right pace, and the announcement in 2025 may turn out to be quite possible,” the video further added.

As per Gabe Follower, Source 2 is also being upgraded heavily integration of CUDA cores, DLSS and other things. Along with that, Valve might also be adding some innovative gameplay mechanics relating to altered gravity. The setting for the Half-Life series is already in a sci-fi world, so this does make sense.