Steam Posts Preorder For Half-Life 2: Episode 3

By Keri Honea

So what could be the cruelest prank Valve could post on April Fools' Day? Something to do with Half-Life 2: Episode 3 or Half-Life 3, right?

That's kind of what the folks at CheapShark.com thought too, so they created a somewhat-legit-looking page that announces a preorder for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 using a Steam-based URL: http://storestteampowered.com/app/4411/.

The page doesn't look half bad, but if you try to click on it, you'll get the "Haha! Fooled you!" overlay from CheapShark.com.

Something like this for a game as anticipated as anything Half-Life, it should be obvious that anything posted today about it would be an April Fools' Day joke. And yet, wouldn't that just be like Valve to really announce this game on April 1st?

Keri Honea
Keri Honea

I've been a writer since I was five, but I came to the gaming realm a little late--post college. However, I've well made up for that ever since I took over my husband's PlayStation 2. I've been writing about and reviewing games since 2005, and can currently be found writing for Playstation LifeStyle and Strategy Guide Reviews on a regular basis.

I'm a professional writer and aspiring yoga teacher by day, but a I'm a game-loving, comic-reading, fantasy book-obsessing geek 24-hours a day.

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