Half-Life 2: Episode 3 (E3 2010)
Well its that time of the year again and yet hundreds and thousands of people are wondering about Half-Life 2 next installment.
well before we actually get into Half-Life 2: Episode 3, lets first look at the past.
well when Half-Life 2 was first released it was and still is the biggest games of all times but later valve announced they will be releasing episodes starting with Half-Life 2 : Episode 1 released on June 1, 2006
yet once gamers completed the first installment the question has been when is Episode 2 going to be released, well Episode 2 was released on October 10, 2007
but what many people do not know, that first two episodes of Half-Life 2 were developed concurrently by separate teams.
and yet years have passed and we are still waiting on an sequel.
well the reason for the long delay originally Electronic Arts was hired for the port of the orange box to both ps3 & xbox 360 but this was the biggest mistake due to bugs, game crashing and made many people on consoles very unhappy with there experience with Half-Life 2
Currently Valve Software are working on improving there source engine,
not that it now supports xbox 360 native but currently they are adding support for playstation 3 that will also work with the source engine native, among new features planned for the 2010 version of the source engine, some spectate there is an source engine 2.0 but you could call this an new engine but currently valve has not announced anything major that would declare the engine to be new, as for pc version of the SDK it does change regularly and going by the engine dates we are already in the 4 version of the engine since the release of Half-Life 2.
so when is Half-Life 2: Episode 3 being released, well Valve refused to comment currently both at E3 & in emails i have sent
but it looks like Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is going to be shipped with the new source engine that portal 2 is based on so we would expect to see announcements from valve in 2011 for Half-Life 2: Episode 3
but if you really do wish to complain to valve fee free to email them
For general issues, e-mail scott@valvesoftware.com. For marketing or press issues, e-mail lombardi@valvesoftware.com. To complain about HL-2 Ep 3 taking too long, email marc@valvesoftware.com. To complain about L4D2 not taking long enough, email toml@valvesoftware.com.
of course lets not forget Gabe Newell (gaben@valvesoftware.com)