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Valve Employee Accidentally Mentions Half-Life 3 Codename For The First Time Ever - Kotaku

NewsAPI | Oct 22, 2026 | Zack Zwiezen

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During a recent developer panel dedicated to video game audio, longtime Valve composer Mike Morasky mentioned two of the company’s games while answering a question: Deadlock and “HLX.” The problem: One of those, HLX, is not the name of any officially announced Valve game, but rather is believed by fans to be the internal, non-public codename for the yet-to-be-announced Half-Life 3. I can imagine that Morasky just sort of forgot that HLX isn’t actually a publicly announced Valve project. Could Half-Life 3 be announced later this year?

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