If you can take your mind method back to the start of 2025, you may keep in mind a fresh wave of reports recommending that Half-Life 3 was lastly reaching the lasts of production, and might be revealed and/or launched anytime. Now, however, 2025 appears set to end with no main news of a video game fans have actually been waiting actual years for.

That does not always suggest a Half-Life 3 Statement and/or release isn’t impending. On the contrary, seasoned reporter Mike Straw demanded a current Insider Gaming podcast that “everyone I’ve spoken with are still determined [Half-Life 3]is a video game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine.”

Straw– who has a long history of reporting video gaming reports from confidential sources– stated this Half-Life 3 info is “not [from] these ordinary sources that have not gotten me info before. … These aren’t like random, one-off individuals.” And those sources are “still determined that the video game is can be found in the spring,” Straw included, keeping in mind that he was “particularly informed [that] spring 2026 [is the window] for the Steam Machine, for the Frame, for the Controller, [and] for Half-Life 3“

Genuine, this time?

Connecting the long-awaited Half-Life 3 to a significant hardware push that has actually currently been revealed for an “early 2026” window definitely sounds possible, offered previous leakages about the video game’s sophisticated state of advancement. There are still some factors to question Straw’s “determined” sources here.

For one, Straw confessed that the previous info he had actually gotten on prospective Half-Life 3 launch and/or statement dates was not dependable sufficient to report in information. “I had actually been informed a date. I was not going to report that date due to the fact that they weren’t 100 percent positive because date,” he stated. “That date has actually considering that passed.”