Canceled Half-Life games explored in concept art treasure trove
New concept art and details for long-known canceled Half-Life games have been revealed, as there have been many spin-offs in the Valve FPS game series that haven’t seen a proper release over the last two decades. These canceled Half-Life games never saw the light of day for vastly different reasons, but getting even just a little bit of new information about them is absolutely incredible.
That’s right, several major details about a myriad of canceled Half-Life games have been revealed in a brand new DidYouKnowGaming video. The channel shares new information, interviews, and concept art for known canceled Half-Life games, and we’ll break down some of the bigger stuff below.
One project DYKG takes aim at is the Half-Life 2 Episode 4 Ravenholm spin-off project at Arkane, alongside consolidating what we knew about Episode 3, like the written treatment of the potential story from Valve writer Marc Laidlaw.
It’s also worth noting that around the 12-minute mark in DYKG’s video, there are some brand new scans for Half-Life 2 Episode 3. The team says it will be sending out a link next week that will be made available to everyone which will have all the high-resolution scans easily available, so keep an eye out for that.
In fact, a decade before Half-Life Alyx Valve was working on a VR spin-off that would have focused on Alyx and her robotic companion Dog. DYKG also managed to get some more new never-before-seen concept art for this title too, and the team talks to Valve collector David McGreavy, who has the original art getting uploaded soon.
“There was an independent Alyx and Dog VR experience that was being toyed with,” McGreavy tells DYKG. “My understanding was that it was going to be a VR experience with Alyx and Dog, going
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