Our 10 year wait is over. Marc Laidlaw, writer for the half life series just released the story and ending to half life 2 Episode 3. Link to the story on Marc's blog is coming soon Link to corrected version of story: https://github.com/Jackathan/MarcLaidlaw-Epistle3/blob/master/Epistle3_Corrected.md Let us all also mourn the passing of our hopes of Half life 3 to be made in a game engine. Rest in peace bud.
Yup. I saw. I think it's not too bad of an outcome, to be honest. The game had been hyped up and legendarised so much that if it would've been released and been anything but perfect and flawless, it would've caused big disappointment across the internet.