Hope springs eternal, and there’s no better evidence of that than the members of subreddit r/Halflife, who have been waiting all year for the announcement of Half-Life 3, or Half-Life X, or whatever the next Half-Life game will be called.

Granted, they’ve worked themself into a frenzy despite a lack of what might be called evidence that the HL3/X announcement would take place before the end of 2025: there were a few vague tweets, but not much else to go on. On the other hand, Valve is poised to release a bunch of new gaming hardware early next year, and it would make sense to have some new software to go along with it.