Gabe Newell: "We are not annoucning anything at E3."

How do you want proof? I can't seem to think of anyway to verify this myself...
I'm really ****ing sorry I never bothered making an avatar...
 
The best way to verify an e-mail, though not infallible, is to click on the little drop down next to the reply button on Gabe's e-mail and then click "Show original". Paste that text here. They are the original message headers.
 
Here ya' go:


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From: Gabe Newell <[email protected]>
To: Casper Stage Hansen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: AMA on Reddit
Thread-Topic: AMA on Reddit
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We are not announcing anything at E3. Really. We are not announcing Half-=
Life 3 or Portal 3 or Left 4 Dead 3. We are going to be showing stuff ever=
yone already knows about (CS:Go, Dota 2, 10' UI, ...).

On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:48 PM, "Casper Stage Hansen" <[email protected]<ma=
ilto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear Gabe.

If you announce Half-Life 3 at E3, I will literally attach a valve to my ey=
eball, and go around with it for a year, to honor the awesomeness of you an=
d your company.

Thank you. That is all.


ps. Attached to this email is an extremely amazing picture of me living the=
dream.
<valveme.jpg>

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<div>We are not announcing anything at E3. &nbsp;Really. &nbsp;We are not a=
nnouncing Half-Life 3 or Portal 3 or Left 4 Dead 3. &nbsp;We are going to b=
e showing stuff everyone already knows about (CS:Go, Dota 2, 10' UI, ...).<=
br>
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On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:48 PM, &quot;Casper Stage Hansen&quot; &lt;<a href=3D=
"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
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<div>Dear Gabe. <br>
<br>
If you announce Half-Life 3 at E3, I will literally attach a valve to my ey=
eball, and go around with it for a year, to honor the awesomeness of you an=
d your company.<br>
<br>
Thank you. That is all. <br>
<br>
<font size=3D"1"><br>
ps. Attached to this email is an extremely amazing picture of me living the=
dream.
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I'd say that looks pretty genuine.
 
Don't kill the messenger, but i still want to believe!
 
Damn it Valve. Half-Life 3 better be freaking amazing when/if it comes out.
 
Subject: Re: AMA on Reddit
Thread-Topic: AMA on Reddit

???

That doesn't seem to describe your email at all. Are you sure you didn't take some old header?
 
Half-Life 3 guys ??? What about Episode 3, heh. Ask gabe about Episode 3 not HL3. That word "Really" what Gabe said is suspicios...What do you guys think ? And what is 10'UI ?
 
-smash- said:
Subject: Re: AMA on Reddit
Thread-Topic: AMA on Reddit

???

That doesn't seem to describe your email at all. Are you sure you didn't take some old header?
Click to expand...
I was gonna ask him if he wanted to do an AMA on reddit, but changed my mind, and decided to ask for HL3...
 
0ut_Stander said:
And what is 10'UI ?
Click to expand...

The 10 foot UI is another name for Steam's Big Picture mode.

It would be much easier to sell a game called "Half-Life 3" at this point than trying to convince people that "Half-Life 2 - Episode 3" is anything more than an expansion to an 8 year old game.
 

Here is a video directly from my browser of me interacting with the email in various ways..
This way, at least you will know it's not photoshopped..
There really isn't much else I can do to prove that my information is legit.
 
Thank you for providing the video!

And thank you, surf.
 
Indeed thank you both, we're happy to confirm everything as legitimate!
 
tabernumse said:

Here is a video directly from my browser of me interacting with the email in various ways..
This way, at least you will know it's not photoshopped..
There really isn't much else I can do to prove that my information is legit.
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You didnt even scroll down to show the rest of the conversation. There were 8 emails in that exchange, could be one of them was from Gabe saying "Haha, jk about that first email."
 
Krynn72 said:
You didnt even scroll down to show the rest of the conversation. There were 8 emails in that exchange, could be one of them was from Gabe saying "Haha, jk about that first email."
Click to expand...
Lol :D
The rest of the emails were because I passed it on to Chris_D who's an admin here.
 
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