Possible Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Assets Found in Alien Swarm

While playing with the SDK of Alien Swarm, Valve’s brilliant new free game, one user of the Steam Forums has pointed out that some assets labeled “ep3″ are available. They appear in a list with other assets tagged as “HL1″, meaning the original Half-Life, so the prefixes appear to be used to reference the game of origin. This would mean that the “ep3″ assets are from Episode 3 (or maybe the little-known Valve porn, Episodic Penetration 3).

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 must be one of the most reclusive and yet highly anticipated games in recent memory, and so it’s always going to be an odd treat to see something like this out in the wild. As you can see from the image above, the objects seem to be “Blobs” of some sort. As PC Gamer points out, this could either be internal Valve nomenclature for something we already know, like the Combine Advisors, or something totally new. Whatever it is, colour me (and all the Valve fans out there) excited- Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is not dead!