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Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public

Amid all those rumors, though, we never got any official sign from anyone inside Valve that a Half-Life project was currently in development.

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Ars Technica reports: Amid all those rumors, though, we never got any official sign from anyone inside Valve that a Half-Life project was currently in development.

Gamers still hoping against hope for a true follow-up to Half-Life 2 (after so, so many years) may remember last year's flurry of speculation that Half-Life 3 was finally nearing completion. In a panel devoted to Valve's use of open audio engines (captured in this Vimeo…

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