Half-Life: Alyx is a new entry to the Half-Life franchise, and it’s a virtual reality game that will be unveiled on November 21 (via Game Rant).
I know what you’re thinking. Is this Half-Life 3?! No. “Half-Life: Alyx” and “Half-Life 3” use totally different letters, and a number. We don’t know a lot about the new game, only that it will be for virtual reality platforms and that we’ll get a proper look at it on Thursday. But, it is intriguing that Valve has actually been beavering away on a Half-Life project. It has been notoriously disinclined to comment on the possibility of a new Half-Life game. For example, Gabe Newell instigated a Reddit AMA and endured a barrage of questions about Half-Life 3 and Half-Life 2: Episode Three, to which he only replied: “The number 3 must not be said.”
We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time.
Can’t wait to share it with all of you! pic.twitter.com/BupFCxSrTw
— Valve (@valvesoftware) November 18, 2019
Half-Life 3 has been leaked and rumoured and tattled on for years and years now. It’s understandable that Valve was wound up, especially as it has made other games that are also good and worthy of conversation. Half-Life: Alyx definitely fulfils the latter category because fans are practically transcendent with the news of a new Half-Life installment. There is one worry, though, and that is the price of VR stuff might mean that some won’t be able to afford to play the game as it is intended.
There could be a non-VR version in the works but that will be confirmed or discredited when Half-Life: Alyx is revealed on Thursday. And, the game will be shown off at Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards on December 12.
