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Long-in-the-works Half-life 2: Episode 3 fan game Project Borealis now has a 10-minute Prologue on Steam


Seven years after being announced, Project Borealis - a fan-developed game based on an unused story treatment for Half-…

Project Borealis was formally unveiled by developer Icebreaker Industries back in 2017, as an attempt to make ex-Valve writer Marc Laidlaw's Epistle 3- a gender-swapped story synopsis charting the adventures of Gertrude Fremont that many believed detailed the events originally planned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 - into a reality. Watch on YouTube September brought word Project Borealis had been reborn in Unreal Engine 5 and the its development team would be soon be releasing a ten-minute Prologue - set before the events of the full length game - for curious players to fiddle around with on Steam. Not only is Icebreaker exploring one possible future for Gordon Freeman, it's heavily rumoured Valve maybe returning to the series itself, with August bringing reports a "fully-fledged non-VR Half-Life game" was in the works.

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