
The images are eventually taken down from the portfolio.
They show what appear to be different designs of Half-Life 2 main character Alyx Vance.
#Half life 2 episode 3 leak Pc
In November of 2007 the first concept art for Half-Life 2 Episode 3 were published in PC Gamer Magazine.If you look at the Episode Two trailer that we shipped with Episode One there's some pretty radical difference between what you see there and see in finished game."

"We're going to try and do something pretty ambitious for that project. In an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun, project lead David Speyrer says that this is because the development team didn't want to be beholden to what's shown in an incomplete teaser, a mistake made with the Episode 2 teaser. Interestingly enough, Half-Life Episode 2 didn't feature a next episode teaser like Episode 1 had for Episode 2.With Half-Life Episode 2 released, the community's focus shifted to Half-Life 2 Episode 3, and that focus hasn't changed to this day.This is compared to the six years it took for Valve to develop Half-Life 2, and something Newell has gone record to say was difficult for the team. Again, this was all part of Valve's intended episodic release schedule which would have allowed for faster development of shorter stories. In 2007, a year after the release of Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Episode 2 was released."There are three that are worked out, and those are the ones that we've been talking about so far," Newell was quoted saying. A similar 2006 interview with Newell was published at Eurogamer where he confirmed that with the inclusion of Half-Life 2 Episode 1, there are three episodes total in the arc.This was still early enough that people were obsessing over Valve's episodic release schedule rather than its actual completion. We know that Valve originally planned for four episode thanks to a PC Gamer 2006 issue that cited Valve CEO Gabe Newell confirming that Episodes 1 through 4 were slated. Two years later, Half-Life 2 Episode 1 kicked off Valve's new episodic approach to Half-Life 2 sequels. Half-Life 2 first came out in 2004 to widespread critical acclaim.To understand how we've reached the point where we waited 17 years for a blog post from a Half-Life writer, it's important to see how we ended up here. Laidlaw's blog, for whatever purpose it was published, is still the closest fans have to Half-Life 3-and that says something. Until Laidlaw's blog post, Half-Life 3 quietly languished as the video game equivalent of a shrug.

Despite featuring some changed names and very little context, the post was taken by many in the video game community as Laidlaw's story plot for the as-of-yet unreleased Half-Life Episode 3. Last night, Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw published a personal blog post titled "Epistle 3".
