A new leak claims that a Half-Life 3 announcement might have been delayed due to the Steam Machine price. According to the insider, Valve is still trying to determine the console’s cost due to skyrocketing hardware component prices, such as RAM.
Game journalists need to hit a quota; quick, start a HL3 rumor for clicks!
Give it another week and the ram for the steam machine will cost more than the whole steam machine the day it was announced.
Please Gabe sell a special edition orange one for half life 3.
Are you asking them to release an… Orange Box?
It is kind of funny how the title says one thing, and then the very next sentence says loljk, just the announcement, which has obviously zero things in common with development.
Oh yeah, hardware prices are what’s preventing HL3 from coming out. Sure.
Half life 3 won’t happen.
Never thought I would be expressing accelerationist views but rn I just want the crash to happen. AI is bullshit and the sooner everyone realizes that the better.
Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.
Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.
The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.
I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.
I don’t remember where I heard it, but a phrase I quite like is “AI is the death drive of capitalism”
Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s
Pardon?
yes of course. HL3 is being delayed because something in the future is exploding backwards through time and fucking everything up. This is the only explanation I choose to accept.
Game is delayed because they couldn’t tell people about it on a stage. This sounds logical.
The GMan has broken containment and is now wandering through our timeline, inserting people into the right points to change the future. I guess this explains the whacky wild ride we’re currently on.
“All good things…”
X Doubt
Lol, half-life 3…the end really must be near!!!
Pretty bad luck on the timing for Steam Machine. Hope Valve can still pull it off, but not sure they’re going to be able to hit a price point where it’s worth buying.
HL3 announcement before GTA VI release?
Half-Life 3 being ruines by tech bros wasn’t in my bingo card but I’m not surprised at this point.
Hatred towards tech bros somehow increased even higher.
Good
Tech Bros ruin everything 🤷♀️
Curse this “AI” shit!
Curse the profit maxxing capitalism behind AI, if it wasn’t AI, it would have been something else
I suppose that’s one way to look at it. Is this … optimism?
fighting the entire global politico-economic system is probably harder than a few techbros. so pessimism i guess…?
Hopium administered
