Reporter Suggests Half-Life 3 Will Be a Steam Machine Launch Title

A veteran games journalist claims Half-Life 3 is real and still planned as a Spring 2026 launch title tied to Valve's next Steam Machine push. Ars Technica reports: On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted on a recent Insider Gaming podcast that 'everybody I've talked to are still adamant [Half-Life 3] is a game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine.'

Straw -- who has a long history of reporting gaming rumors from anonymous sources -- said this Half-Life 3 information is 'not [from] these run-of-the-mill sources that haven't gotten me information before.... These aren't like random, one-off people.' And those sources are 'still adamant that the game is coming in the spring,' Straw added, noting that he was 'specifically told [that] spring 2026 [is the window] for the Steam Machine, for the Frame, for the Controller, [and] for Half-Life 3.'

Timing specifics aside, Straw said his sources have him convinced that the long wait for Half-Life 3 is coming to an end in the near future. 'The game's real,' he said. 'At the end of the day, the game is real. There's no denying it. It's just a 'when' and not an 'if' at this point.'

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