Today we learned that the trademark for Half-Life 3 was registered by Valve, and now we get a further piece of confirmation, thanks to hawk-eyed NeoGAF user Ekim.
Valve Software’s bug tracker site now includes a group for “Half-Life 3” and a second group named “Half-Life 3 Core“, basically confirming that the game is indeed in development. You don’t look for bugs in a game you aren’t developing, after all.
Below you can see a screencap of the page (email addresses have been blurred to protect the identity of innocent developers and QA testers), just in case Valve decides to hide the groups from our curious eyes.
It’s happening (unless they’re trolling us)!
Update: apparently the bug tracker site is now down. Either the massive influx of traffic from gamers wanting to see with their own eyes demolished the server (not unlikely, since NeoGAF went down too), or Valve pulled the plug in a hurry in order to hide the smoking gun. Well…too late for that, Gabe.