‘Half Life 3’ Release Date Rumors: Fans think Half Life 3 Has Already Been Developed But Information Is Misleading

by Stony Kool / Dec 29, 2015 06:00 PM EST

'Half Life 3' Release Date Rumors: Half-Life 3 is one of the most anticipated video game sequels. Fans of the "Half Life" series have been eagerly waiting for the release of a new sequel to the game. There have been rumors that the game was confirmed by Valve, with a release date in 2017.

A new leak reportedly shows a number of games have been revealed to be coming to the PC platform in a listing for Half Life 3 on Steam. The Steam Database site reports that a package found in Steam, filed as ID 66300, was "Half-Life 3." The package contains three files, titled "Half Life 3 Developer Comp.," "Half Life 3 for Beta Testing" and "Half Life 3."

It was revealed that the information came to Steam Database from Valve but Steam acknowledged some mistakes in their database and the information posted is not completely reliable.The list also included Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD,

SteamDB found evidence of gaming's greatest vaporware inside Valve's PC game sharing program, in the hl3.txt found in the DOTA 2 update.

"While this information comes straight from Valve and many of these kinds of leaks turned out to be real in the past," Stream DB wrote, "it is important to note that third-party Steam developers can create and name their own apps/packages, a noteworthy mention of developers doing this are these packages, in which they are trying to XSS Steam."

Valve has not announced any official news regarding to its development or possibly cancelation the long awaited game, "Half-Life 3."

"While this information comes straight from Valve and many of these kinds of leaks turned out to be real in the past, it is important to note that third-party Steam developers can create and name their own apps/packages," Steam wrote on their blog.

"Many things could also be old entries and as such no longer be in development/coming to Steam. An example of a previous leak that ended up being nothing (yet) is Halo 3."

Valve announced that the "Half Life 3" release date is around the corner earlier this year. Fans think Half Life 3 has been developed but is being shelved for other projects.