Guy who left valve possibly has HL3 work on resume

[rjthrog]

I read this on game informer. Unofficially confirmed (like everything else Half Life related) but i thought it was interesting.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/06/15/half-life-3-hints-surface.aspx

 

[JUL3]

UPDATE: Valve's Doug Lombardi responded to this rumor in about as clear a way as we could hope for: "This is fiction (aside from the fact that Mike D is a real person)." Well, back to the waiting game, everybody.

I'm not believing anything unless it's announced by VALVe.

 

[Naph]

There are definately Valve made policies that state you can't withold information about their prototypes or projects in resumes. Why risk the lawsuit.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Valve have NDA's regarding working projects, it could of been that Mike D had the project on his resume before Valve Officially went silent

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Or this resume is manufactured to include it. There is at least one of these attempts each month, it's hard to predict which ones will get some momentum but the desperation for a nugget of information drives us to crazy lengths.

It's quite obvious it is made up, I mean the dates and details on the CV are a culmination of facts we know and pieces of information Valve have said. For example, they were going to outsource an episode, the date for episode 2's launch and the ending of the episodic model. Throw 'Mike D' in there as an arbitrary Valve employee and see how far it goes!

I love the speculation as to why the user who posted it on SPUF was banned though. Ordinarily in a normal universe we can label a troll fairly easily...but throw episode 3 into the equation and we would happily send our bank account details to Nigeria.

 

[Zephos]

Hm, I'm not one to get involved in this hysteria but damn, it's actually been a long ****ing time.

 

[rjthrog]

I dont know if its legit or not i just thought it was a little interesting, because most of the time, not always, but most of everything i've read on game informer is usually not bs. Oh well.

 

[Tony]

It's fake.

Valve's Doug Lombardi responded to this rumor in about as clear a way as we could hope for: "This is fiction (aside from the fact that Mike D is a real person)." Well, back to the waiting game, everybody.

As updated in the link provided by OP.

 

[GreatEmperor]

yeah the "waiting game", for those who still give a shit

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Well, I mean, with the hire-ins and relative secrecy surrounding anything but DotA 2 is indicative in itself (and the statement made by Doug, which essentially implies a "eventually" means they're, at the very least, developing assets for something Half-Life related.

I hardly doubt this is revelatory to anyone 'round these parts, though. Source needs an overhaul and Valve needs a new tour de force and some long-needed fan service. I'd expect a product announcement within the year and a game within a decade - given they're dev cycles, haha.