It's been quite some time since we last updated you on our mod, Half-Life 2 Episode 3: The Return. We're excited to announce that the mod is now approximately 65% complete! The bulk of our efforts have been focused on creating an immersive and engaging arctic environment for the player to explore. "Half-Life 2 Episode 3 has been cancelled. The project has turned into a full fledged title confirmed to be Half-Life 3. Half-Life 3 is the official title and has turned very well into a Browse 3 mods for Half-Life 2: Episode 2 at Nexus Mods. Replaces some of the half life 2 audio with its black mesa counter parts. This is going to be a long Aperture Science was already added to the Half-Life universe in Episode 2 when it was revealed that the Borealis was an Aperture Science research vessel. The Borealis was going to be a central location in Episode 3. As to why it never happened, I don't know. A shift in management style leading to a lot of internal strife and infighting over One Man Army (5) - Destroy six gunships in Half-Life 2. OSHA Violation (5) - Kill 3 enemies using the crane. Pacifist (10) - Contain the Citadel core without killing any stalkers. Progress on the ambitious fan-made Half-Life 2: Episode 3 adaptation, Project Borealis, is continuing, but it will be a long, long time before that happens. "The original Half-Life took two years to create and Half-Life 2 took six years. That means Half-Life 3 would ship in approximately 2022. By which time we'll all be retired," laughs Newell. "With episodic content we can answer everybody's questions about what happened at the end of Half-Life 2, and we can do it in 18 months rather than 18 years.” But due to a DOTA 2 beta tester's decision to leak the game's client system, we may have some legitimate Episode 3 information. Oh. My. Freeman. Half-Life 2 seems to have cemented its position as kzdd.