Half-Life 3 is Rumored to be Officially Announced at The Game Awards 2025

Upcoming The Game Awards 2025 ceremony will not only introduce the best games of this year in 29 different categories but also expected to show a lot of new games including some big surprises. One of that games could be something a lot of fans are waiting for decades.

Of course, it's about Half-Life 3. The long awaited continuation of engeneer Gordon Freeman's adventures is something Half-Life fans have been waiting not since Half-Life: Alyx that set up a new game but since the sequel was released in 2004. And before such big events as The Game Awards, rumors are circulation over the net more and more but new leak from Reddit suggestsHalf-Life 3 was in development for a while and annoucement is about to happen at The Game Awards 2025. More text from Reddit user Source2LeakAIML you can see below:

"I’m wiping this account tomorrow, but I wanted to drop the real leak. I don’t work for Valve, but I’m at a major AI/ML lab that partnered with them on the tech for Half-Life 3. The game is absolutely coming, and the announcement is imminent.

The breakthrough Valve was waiting for was the ability to handle physics—specifically fluids and destruction—using machine learning instead of expensive deterministic calculations. Put simply, Valve has integrated a pipeline into Source 2 that allows them to brute-force high-fidelity simulations to build ground-truth datasets. These datasets train models to predict physics interactions rather than compute them raw.

Think movie-quality water simulations, 1:1 structural destruction, and complex vehicle physics, all running smoothly on a mid-tier GPU. The hardware isn't solving the heavy math; it’s just making efficient ML predictions via pre-trained models. Half-Life 3 is effectively the tech demo for this advancement. It allows developers to create experiences with 100x the physical interactivity at less than 1% of the historical compute cost. It’s a genuine game-changer."

Although this is just a speculation and should be considered with a grain of salt, if that's true, this is surely very exciting news for all Half-Life fans who might witness really a big day on December 12.

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