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Uh huh. Halo Reach is coming out in 2010 ODST came out in 2009 Halo Wars came out in 2009 Halo 3 came out in 2007 (the same year as Ep.1 and Portal) Halo 2 came out in 2004 (the same year as HL2) Halo came out in 2001 (the same year as Blue Shift) And on the non-Bungie list, Half Life 2...

You may be pleased to note that Ep 3 is the last episode in the Half Life 2 story arc (or so they claim). Everything I've read says that Ep 3 isn't (necessarily) the last Half Life release, but I'm not sure exactly what that means. We're pretty sure that there will be a Portal 2, which could...

Begin? I think I already started speculating about this a couple days back.

Uh... Vincent Price would be 98 years old today. Even if he were still alive, he would not be acting. Price is a weird voice, though. He enunciated very well and inflected his speech properly, but didn't ever seem to betray any emotion (I'm thinking especially of The Last Man on Earth here)...

I'll admit that I may be wrong, but it's not really a model of what the consumer thinks, but what marketers may think a certain subset of consumers think. I know that similar theories exist for marketing of other products, so it's not too far-fetched to think that these theories might be used...

Just for you:

Given that Valve has not released any information at all about Portal 2, I strongly doubt that we'll see Portal 2 in 2010, and as such, it will not compete with Ep 3 (assuming that Ep 3 is released in 2010). I'll say it again. They cannot release any new information about Ep 3 right now...

That's either It's almost certainly the first, though they may have meant to say the second.

Yup, I forgot about that. It's possible (or even probable, if they didn't have a plot for Half Life 3 at the time Ep. 2 came out) that whatever will happen in Ep 3 will be the event which both the Vortigaunts and Gman are looking toward, but you're more likely right. I do hope that Alyx...

Well, why not? There's not going to be an episode 4, and HL3 is probably not going to take place in Sector 17, or in the Arctic. It may not even take place in the same time period. Unless Gordon drags Alyx along with him, Alyx will not be appearing in any more Half Life games. It would be...

Also, Kim Swift accidentally told us that it was going to happen, but they haven't been talking about it officially. Unlike Portal, however, Episode 3 has been discussed since Episode 1, and it certainly won't come as a surprise to anyone. We've seen art and had information about Ep 3 that...

There is Still Alive. Besides, how unusual is this for Valve? You've got Lost Coast for HL2, but what else do you have in terms of DLC for any of the Half Life games?

I agree, but I doubt that Valve would release a sequel to Portal in 2010 without at least confirming that they're making a sequel in 2009.

Whoa, that's a little bit too long. Left 4 Dead, for example, was first announced in November 2006, and it was released on November 2008. That was a completely new title, and that was 24 months, with a company acquisition in the middle. Left 4 Dead 2 was first announced in June. That's June...

In light of what leib10 said, let me clarify what I meant. If Valve announces Ep.3 at E3, they will almost certainly wait until Q4 2010 to release it. If they want to release it before, they'll have to make some sort of announcement in Q1, and the GDC is almost perfectly positioned to do that...

Well, you don't have to worry about me being bashful. I'm usually fairly uninhibited in my criticism. Though I suspect that's not what you meant, so I'll pull my punches. How does your theory deal with that?

From a marketing perspective, it would not make sense to release information about Episode 3 now, since that would make some people wait rather than buy Left 4 Dead 2 for Christmas. And unless they have a product available by then, that wouldn't help their bottom line. Even then, they're...