Valve's E3 Surprise

**Chalex4** · 5th June 2010, 07:08 PM

It all started with this:

Subject: A note from Aperture Science

Dear Subject Name Here,

Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we are pleased to further announce that the cancellation of the event is not THE surprise. However, per International treaties regarding the definition of the word "surprise", of which both Aperture Science and Valve are signatories, the time, date and content of the actual surprise will only become available as you experience the surprise.

If you'd like to ask fruitless questions about the E3 Portal 2 surprise or, more fruitfully, schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve's Special Envoy to Surprises, Doug Lombardi.

Thank you for <<RECORD SCRATCH!!!>>

PS: The surprising record scratch is also not the surprise.

So what could it be? CSS2, HL3...or a completely new IP? Obviously everyone's hoping for EP3.

But what proof do we have of it being EP3? Just check out this pic from the TF2 blog:

But wait, what's this?

And there's more! You can see a faint outline of Gordon's face.

Either way, I guess we'll find out on June 14th

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**Calneon** · 5th June 2010, 07:53 PM

My bet is that it's going to be Half Life 3. They've had enough bloody time.

**D_K_Head** · 5th June 2010, 10:50 PM

It's about fucking time...

Maybe valve are just sad to see the last of Half Life? (Going off of an old announcement that there wouldn't be ep4, or a HL3.)

**Marshy** · 5th June 2010, 11:08 PM

In the words of mitch, it's going to be like

Valve: and as you can see we are still working on Half life 3, thanks everyone

**Target** · 6th June 2010, 12:37 PM

I hope it is HL3 its been so long, they must have had time to develop the physics engine past a simple see-saw

**Vicious Horizon** · 6th June 2010, 01:04 PM

Fuck Episode 3, I want Half Life 3.

**Darkpidgeon** · 6th June 2010, 02:30 PM

Found this on the Steam TF2 forums around the time of that post

**Chazlene** · 6th June 2010, 04:04 PM

Umm that's not a dick, it's just part of his MASSIVE thigh...

**Bloo** · 6th June 2010, 04:10 PM

The announcement is going to be L4D3, just to piss off all the half life fans again.

**Marshy** · 6th June 2010, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Darkpidgeon

Found this on the Steam TF2 forums around the time of that post

I lold pretty damn hard

**Darkpidgeon** · 7th June 2010, 10:19 PM

Doesnt look like episode 3

Valve staffers are known to occasionally respond to fan emails, and that's exactly what Newell did. In response to an email imploring Valve to unveil Episode 3 next week, Newell simply wrote back, "It isn't ep 3."

Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179670&cmpid=0101

**Calneon** · 7th June 2010, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by Darkpidgeon

Doesnt look like episode 3

Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179670&cmpid=0101

It's Half Life 3. I so fucking bet it is. Why would he reply so confidently if he didn't have something better than Ep3.

Fuck yes.

**Chalex4** · 7th June 2010, 11:50 PM

I agree with Phant (or at least I want to

). He's just milking it for all it's worth.

I predict that what they eventually release will not be on the source engine as it's pretty old now. They needed to start from scratch, which is why it's HL3.