Valve Employee Accidentally Mentions Half-Life 3 Codename For The First Time Ever

During a recent developer panel dedicated to video game audio, longtime Valve composer Mike Morasky mentioned two of the company’s games while answering a question: Deadlock and “HLX.” The problem: One of those, HLX, is not the name of any officially announced Valve game, but rather is believed by fans to be the internal, non-public codename for the yet-to-be-announced Half-Life 3 . Oops! On October 21, as spotted by longtime Valve reporter Tyler McVicker , during GameSoundCon , Valve sound designers David Feise and Carlye Nyte were part of a panel about how sound and music work in Source 2…