Andy Cortez

And while Valve hasn't told us what HLX refers to, fans and data miners have collected a lot of dots over the last four years or so.

What else could HLX stand for?

Hyperlite Zifter.

Oh, okay.

They do that a lot, though, ecstasy.

Okay.

Yeah.

How's it looking, Xzibit?

cars looking good cars looking great what's been found hlx appears to be a single player non-vr fps featuring a character in an hev suit who fights aliens and soldiers through various levels while possibly solving physics-based puzzles

Now, that sounds a lot like a new Half-Life game, and most of the community following HLX, as well as multiple reliable leakers, have started to call this datamined project Half-Life 3.

The fact that Valve has been working quietly on what appears to be a new Half-Life game for at least roughly five years, and likely longer than that, has created some hype online.

But everything got kicked into high gear last week after Valve announced three new pieces of hardware.

The Steam Machine, the Steam Frame, and the Steam Controller.

You weren't here for that, were you?

Dude, I was not.

And I didn't, I really kind of didn't see, like, how grand this vision is.

Yeah.

When I saw all of it, I was like, okay, that's cool.

Like, oh, they're bringing the C machine back.

You know, we figured they would do that one day.