Half-Life: Alyx needs to be played. Ignoring all the amazing set pieces and revolutionary visual flourishes, if you’re a long-time devout of Valve’s FPS series, there are some vital story moments in the VR shooter that completely change how you look at Half-Life 2 and the episodes. There are ways to play Alyx without an expensive headset (more on that later) and now, as rumors abound that Half-Life 3 might actually, really, truly be in development, the 2020 sequel is available at a historically low price. Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe it’s not. But just to be on the safe side, this is probably a good time to give Alyx a whirl.

Following yesterday's bombshell news that Valve could be developing a new Half-Life game, Valve expert Tyler McVicker has stepped forward to say he too believes it's true.

Codenamed "HLX", McVicker asserts the new game "seems to be a fully-fledged non-VR Half-Life game, something that seems too good to be true".

I'll go into some of the details after the video embedded below, but please be mindful there may be spoilers for this new game.

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Update 5th August, 2024: Natasha Chandel's website is currently down after it exceeded the bandwidth limit.

Just before the website went down, it had been updated, and all references to Valve's "Project White Sands" had been scrubbed.

Original story follows.

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Recent leaks have revealed that Valve Corporation may be working on an upcoming title, codenamed White Sands.

As reported by Eurogamer, voice actor Natasha Chandel’s website initially mentioned a Valve game project named White Sands in the voice-over section. Natasha Chandel is an actress, …

As Hamlet requested of Horatio, it is time to once again absent myself from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world draw my breath in pain to tell you that the Half-Life 3 speculators are at it again. Over the weekend, the discovery of a mystery Valve project called "White Sands" on a voice actor's portfolio has set tongues and fingers wagging about potential Half-Life news in the offing.

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As Hamlet requested of Horatio, it is time to once again absent myself from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world draw my breath in pain to tell you that the Half-Life 3 speculators are at it again. Over the weekend, the discovery of a mystery Valve project called "White Sands" on a voice actor's portfolio has set tongues and fingers wagging about potential Half-Life news in the offing.

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