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We have an explanation for why HL3 wasn't revealed at The Game Awards.
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For more gaming reviews, gaming previews, movie reviews, series reviews, exclusives, interviews, world news, sports news and of course so much more, without further ado though, today we're talking something that was absent from Game Awards at the end of last week, now I didn't do a GRTV News last week at the end to sort of sum up the Game Awards I guess because I was out of office, but we did see loads and loads of cool announcements and you can check the sort of play-by-play at Gamereactor wherever you get it from right now, but something that we didn't see that a lot of people were expecting to see is Half-Life 3 and we might now have the reason for that."
"So Half-Life 3 is expected to still be coming pretty soon, it's even expected to be a launch title for the Steam Machine, as Paolo writes here, however, according to Senior Editor at Insider Gaming, Mike Straw, there are a couple of reasons as to why Half-Life 3 wasn't announced at the Game Awards last week."
"So one of those reasons is primarily that Valve is pretty concerned about the Steam Machine as a whole with, I don't know if you're aware, but if you're not, OpenAI or AI is basically mass-buying loads of RAM which is causing huge ripple effects across the PC industry, the gaming industry, the console industry, all of these things because a lot of these devices use a lot of RAM to be produced."
"Nintendo is going to be fueling it soon, PlayStation is going to be fueling it soon, Xbox is going to be fueling it soon, we're expecting price rises, especially when it comes to console hardware across the board and this is likely going to affect the Steam Machine as well which Valve is probably going to be a bit cautious about considering the fact that once they set the price point for this new console, it's going to be something that people are going to be talking about for quite some time and it's not like the Nintendo Switch 2 where they can say, well we had it at this price for a while but now we're going to have to raise that price because of the RAM shortages."
"In any case, you can see why if they're being cautious about the Steam Machine, they'll be cautious about announcing a game for it like Half-Life 3 because that's only going to make people's anticipation higher and higher.
However, this situation could affect the launch of the Steam Machine which is currently looking to an early 2026 launch, which if Half-Life 3 is being announced for that, you would put that at the same sort of time frame."
"However, we simply don't know if that's going to be the case or if Half-Life 3 is going to be pushed back, it's really hard to say, it's really hard to tell but it might be the case that we do see Half-Life 3 before we see GTA 6 which would kind of be insane.
But if that is the case, let me know if you're excited for Half-Life 3, you're still going to be checking Reddit every day, you're still going to be reloading Game Reactor wherever you get it from to sort of see if we've got any new reports."
"We will be keeping our head to the ground with this and keeping our eyes peeled so make sure you look out on the homepage for any updates on Half-Life 3 but unfortunately, it wasn't revealed last week and it probably won't be revealed before the new year.
Until then, I'll see you tomorrow for some more GRTV news, goodbye."
