Half-Life 3 fever has been running hot this week, for reasons—and I use that term loosely—we laid out here, which can very generally be described as "it's November and we're all a little bored and restless." One small bit of pseudo-evidence did catch my eye, though: As PC Gamer's freest man Tyler Wilde noted, "Geoff Keighley posted a 👀 emoji." What?
The whole thing began innocently enough—or at least so it appeared. Keighley, host of The Game Awards, posted a message on X urging his followers to "Check out #TheGameAwards nominee page on Steam to celebrate the best of the year." He attached an image of the Steam front page, which—because he was logged in at the time—revealed that he has precisely one game in his wishlist.
