Half-Life 2 Episode 3 New Poster E3

Recent rumours and a brand new poster image, showing G-Man’s face it’s all around the web!

Take it as a rumor, but be excited!
"A mysterious image including Half-Life’s signature lambda sigil and the words “Freeman June 14th” has appeared online. The picture looks to be a photo of some kind of binder or poster, and invites speculation regarding the recently (and hilariously) canceled June 14th Portal 2 event.

There’s no official confirmation or denial on its way, but Valve does like to play games on the Net from time to time. The company recently pulled out of E3, but June 14th is the same day as the Xbox media briefing…perhaps Dr. Freeman will be making an appearance at Microsoft’s shindig?"
Source: GameInformer

This is the new at GameInformer: https://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/06/04/half-life-announcement-coming.aspx

June 14 is 1 day away from my first day of school as a fourth year student. FFFUUU— My summer vacation is gonna be over in 7 days. I just hope that VALVe shows Ep.3 at E3 at June 14.

WUT? MY SUMMER VACATION DOESN’T EVEN START FOR 3 WEEKS

EDIT: WHEW I"MA HOUNDEYE

Wait… they’ve pulled out of E3? So are they still doing the surprise, or not?

Who’s face is that in the poster? Gman’s?

Pulled out of e3? da fuck? but also OMG TEASER

Haha I just noticed, under the Lambda amiright?

holy shit its a face

and its definitely gman

Wasn’t this an image some random (user) from Valve/half life 2 forum created recently?

It’s a face, I thought it’s a dirt on my screen… whoa.

Yeah, the face is a well hidden Gman, but you can see it when you look properly.

I want this to be real, but at the same time, I’m not getting my hopes up.

Valve have the best marketing team I’ve ever known, and the slow, but obvious announcement of Portal 2 was the best announcement for a game that I’ve ever seen.

This is fake and gay guys.

Yes it’s a fake

Any source on that “it’s fake lawl” talk. Just want to know the reason so many people are saying it.

If the branding was more consistent with all the other HL2 promotional material, I’d believe it was real, but branding is really important for a company, and this just isn’t Valve’s branding of HL2.

But ye, it’s still possible that it’s real, I’m just leaning towards the “fake” camp for this.

  1. On the steam half-life 2 episode 2 forum, they’ve extracted the exif data on this thing, and it’s been photoshopped to DEATH on the exif data.

  2. In the original posting of where this image came from(just look around the steam ep2 forum, the link is in there somewhere) This picture was believed to be posted by Gabe Newell himself, complete with gabe’s actual email address. But upon further analysis, the ipaddress is horribly wrong, because it points at gabe being somewhere in sweden.

Maybe he’s on holiday? ¬.¬

Fake or not, I think it’s high time we got some news on Ep3 :expressionless:

Fake, but awesome nontheless

it’ll be surelly fake but if it isn’t well… my vacations start day 18 hehehe… but surelly it’s fake D:

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