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Half-Life 2: Episode Three is a canceled first-person shooter game developed by Valve. It was planned as the last in a trilogy of episodic games continuing the story of Half-Life 2 (2004). Valve announced Episode Three in May 2006, with a release planned for 2007.
As developing Half-Life 2 and the original Source engine simultaneously had created problems, Valve delayed development of a new Half-Life until Source 2 was complete. [28] In 2017, the Half-Life writer, Marc Laidlaw, released a short story that journalists speculated was a summary of the Episode Three plot. [26]
Over the following decade, numerous Half-Life games were canceled, including Episode Three, a version of Half-Life 3, and games developed by Junction Point Studios and Arkane Studios. In 2020, after years of speculation, Valve released Half-Life: Alyx, which was developed exclusively for virtual reality headsets.
The Orange Box is a video game compilation containing five games developed and published by Valve.Two of the games included, Half-Life 2 and its first stand-alone expansion, Episode One; had previously been released in 2004 and 2006 as separate products.
Half-Life 2: Episode Three: announced in 2006 with a release date of late 2007, and was put on hold, possibly cancelled due to scope creep, unsatisfactory internal experiments, and the desire to develop the Source 2 engine first. [141] Untitled Half-Life 2 episode: developed by Junction Point Studios and led by Warren Spector.
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On May 26, 2010, Half-Life 2, Episode One and Episode Two were released for Mac OS X. [27] In 2013, Valve ported Half-Life 2 to Linux [28] and released a free update adding support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. [29] An NVIDIA Shield Tablet-exclusive port for Android was released on May 12, 2014. [30]