Half-Life 3 Release Date Still Far from Now; Multiplayer Mode to be Implemented in the game.

Half Life's fanbase as well as its level of unfailing critical acclaim are some of the things game companies would have wished for. While the game already has a mark in the history of gaming, many are still anticipating the Half Life 3 release date.

With the original game of the franchise released in 1998, the game was also ported to the Playstation. The sequel Half Life 2 landed in 2004 after a protracted development phase, and was followed by a couple of add-on packs – Episode One and Episode Two.

More recently, Valve head-honcho Gabe Newell has confirmed in one of its mid-November 2012 interview that the firm is working on a new game engine. He said, "We've been working on new engine stuff for a while." Unfortunately, he didn't mention if it is Half-Life 3. However, it surely got everyone thinking about it.

At Gamescom in August 2012, it was discovered what looked like evidence of its presence – when Half Life 3 was included on a lists all the titles in a PDF from the games show's website that will be announced at the conference.

As 2014 arrived, the promise of a new Half Life release date seemed to be getting farther from possible. In January, Newell was quoted by the Washington Post as saying that Valve is deliberately focusing on multi-player games instead of a single player Half Life installment.

"When we started out we were a single-player video game company that could have been really successful just doing Half-Life sequel after Half-Life sequel," he said.

"But we collectively said let's try to make multi-player games even though there's never been a commercial successful multi-player game."

While these comments don't make good reading for Half Life fans, one takeaway is that if Valve does produce a second sequel, it would surely have a fearsome multiplayer mode built in. Some believe that Half Life 3 will be launched on Steam OS, which could put the game very much on the horizon.