Half Life 2: Episode 3 rumour image. updated – teh fake :(
After the cancellation of the Portal 2 event for a “surprise” – now this image surfaces. . .
edit: and turns out to be fake. .! Ah well, the PC gaming community can relax once again. Just to mix things up; there are some screen grabs of (probably fake) emails from Gabe Newell also doing the rounds. One jokingly suggesting L4D2 Episode 1 (what a horrible thought), and another saying it isn’t episode 3.
The episode 3 rumours are flying once again with the circulation of this image (click to make large):
..and without going all X-Files, perhaps most controversially is that if you run the image through Photoshop, and mess with curves/levels you can more or less make out the shape of Gman’s face?
Oooh, spooky? What can it all mean? Surely Episode 3 is a dead cert, now?
Let us know what you think in the comments box, all speculation welcome! 
Hi, i did the same thing, but i also tried to aply some half life familiar faces to the image. G-man fits perfectly. the dimensions, the position of the face “components”.
Perfect match.
Freemon, wouldn’t mind seeing those tests!
There’s talk on the forums that it could be Ep3, HL3, or even a fake?!
Timeline of events (copied from a Reddit post):
-Someone on the steam forums posts image (without indication where he got it from): http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=15267467#post15267467
-Chris Hawke picks it up: http://systemlink.gamersguidetolife.com/2010/06/half-life-2-episode-3-pretty-much.html#comment-54805380
-godfree finds Chris Hawke’s post, puts image on twitpic: http://twitter.com/godfree/status/15454072598
-twitpic link gets posted to reddit.