Individuals on-line are going wild pondering that Valve could have unintentionally revealed the existence of a brand new Half-Life sport after a developer talked about a undertaking known as “HLX.”
Talking on the Recreation Sound Con occasion, Valve sound designer Mike Morasky was discussing how Valve’s video games make the most of excessive dynamic vary (HDR) audio programs. He particularly known as out how upcoming Valve sport Impasse has its personal model of HDR and so does a undertaking known as HLX.
One other Valve developer sitting subsequent to Morasky says to him instantly after, “Good work,” seemingly in reference to how Morasky might need spoken out of flip right here by mentioning HLX. You too can see the opposite Valve developer saying to Morasky, “Good job, you solely stated HLX as soon as.”
Morasky is a Valve veteran, having labored on the sound and music for video games like Workforce Fortress 2, Left 4 Useless, Portal 2, Half-Life: Alyx, and Counter-Strike 2. Outdoors of video games, he labored on visible results for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings motion pictures and The Matrix trilogy. He was a member of the band Metal Pole Bathtub Tab.
Some time again, a datamining effort discovered references to one thing known as HLX, and a few assume it is a new Half-Life sport, or probably the fabled Half-Life 3. For what it is value, it is turn into one thing of an annual custom for individuals to get excited concerning the smallest doable proof of a brand new Half-Life, solely to be dissatisfied when nothing will get introduced.
The Half-Life franchise has a devoted fanbase and the franchise has main cache, so it would not be stunning to see Valve return to the sequence once more after 2020’s VR sport Half-Life: Alyx. That was GameSpot’s Recreation of the Yr that yr.