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Episode One was released in 2006, followed by Episode Two in 2007. [2] [3] Valve's president, Gabe Newell, said he considered the trilogy the equivalent of Half-Life 3. [4] Episode Three would be set in the Arctic and focus on the missing Borealis ship mentioned in Episode Two and another Valve game, Portal 2. [5]
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]
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]
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.
In December 2008, Valve announced that the two main Half-Life games had sold 15.8 million units in retail (9.3m for the first, 6.5m for the second), while the Half-Life expansions [85] had sold 1.9 million (Opposing Force: 1.1 million, Blue Shift: 800,000) and Half-Life 2 expansions 1.4 million units (all for Episode One) by the end of November ...
Ravenholm (also known as Return to Ravenholm or Half-Life 2: Episode Four): developed by Arkane Studios around 2006–2007, with Opposing Force protagonist Adrian Shephard as the player character and Father Grigori from Half-Life 2 in a supporting role. [143] Half-Life 3: a version of Half-Life 3 was in development on the Source 2 engine from ...
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After the release of Half-Life 2 in 2004, Valve began developing a trilogy of episodic sequels, planning to release shorter games more frequently. [21] Half-Life 2: Episode One was released in 2006, followed by Episode Two in 2007, which ended on a cliffhanger. Episode Three was scheduled for 2008, but was canceled. [22]