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Half-Life series writer Marc Liadlaw has spoken about his previous plans for the franchise and how the third instalment would not have been the end. While he no longer works at Valve, he was a major part of the series in the past and had knowledge of previous plans. Speaking to Arcade Attack, Laidlaw explained that he has no idea if Half-Life 3 would ever see the light of day. “They [the episodes] were all supposed to take the series to a point where I could step away from it and leave it to the next generation. I had hoped for a reset between HL2 and HL3 that was as dramatic as the shift between HL1 and HL2,” Laidlaw states. “I honestly don’t know if anyone else shared this goal, but it seemed important to me to give ultimate freedom to whoever inherited the series, with my own personal set of loose ends tied up to my satisfaction.” According to the writer, each Half-Life instalment would have ended without any