While some fans have lost hope completely, others believe that a full game (instead of an episodic stand-alone) is being prepared at Valve. Valve’s co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell, furnished contradicting details in the years to come, which raised serious doubts regarding the Half-Life series’s future. However, after 11 years, diehard fans of the series are still waiting. Half-Life 2: Episode 3, which was supposed to tie all loose ends and narrative arcs of the prequel, was announced in October 2007. In 2004, Valve continued the series with a follow up titled Half-Life 2, which was in turn, followed by two short titles – Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (2006) and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (2007), what heightened expectations for a third chapter were how Episode 2 added so little in ways of closure and ended with a cliff-hanger.
