10 Hyped Video Games In Development (That Will Never Be Released)
1. Every Valve IP
Half Life 3 (or, as some prefer, Half Life Episode 3) has been rumored for so long that it has become the most notorious piece of vaporware ever to be tossed around the gaming sphere. Nothing short of a meme at this point, Valve will likely maintain radio silence on this subject until the end of time. Never to be released or even announced, yet never officially cancelled. The Half Life series will forever be a miserable, unbearable cliffhanger.
Yet, Half Life is far from the only Valve IP the developer has left high and dry in recent history, and fantastic franchises like Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and Portal are all in desperate need of a capstone title.
Valve seems to have stepped away from game publishing ever since their PC-centric game distribution service Steam has taken over as the de facto venue for game sales, but that doesn't mean they aren't willing to publish another self-developed title. Valve is, in truth, the sort of company to scrap a project, regardless of development progress, if they didn't consider it to be up to their standards. Half Life 3 could never surpass they hype it has generated, which is why it won't ever be released.