Valve boss Gabe Newell delivered a keynote earlier today at the Games for Change festival at New York University. As a part of the Games for Learning Day event, he focused largely on the educational benefits of games, although that didn’t stop a question about Half-Life 2: Episode 3 from being asked.
It’s a subject that comes up seemingly any time that a Valve employee is interviewed, and rightfully so; the episodic Half-Life games were intended to decrease the amount of time in between releases, not increase them. There was a six year gap after Half-Life was released before we saw Half-Life 2, and this October will mark four years since Episode 2. It seems like it must be coming sooner or later, but Valve is always coy about addressing the subject.
When asked when Episode 3 is coming out, Newell replied, “If you know enough to ask the question, you know enough what the answer is,” Kotaku reports. So much for that “Christmas 2007” thing.
