18 Most WTF Gaming Industry Moments Of 2017

16. Half-Life 2: Episode 3's Possible Plot Is Released

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At the end of the summer, ex-Valve writer Marc Laidlaw made a post on his personal blog entitled, "Epistle 3", which appeared to be a not-so-subtle summary of his proposed plot for Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Though all the names were changed, presumably for legal reasons - Gordon Freeman was "Gertrude Fremont", for instance - it doesn't take much reading between the lines to decipher the game's narrative, which would've seen Gordon and Alyx tracking down the Aperture Science research ship known as the Borealis.

To many fans, this provided "closure" that a new Half-Life game was never going to come to fruition, because why else would anyone reveal the game's planned plot?

Valve probably won't ever officially cancel the game, but this at least brought some fans a small and totally unexpected measure of peace.

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