Potential Half-Life 3 plot outed by series writer Marc Laidlaw

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Half-Life 3, gaming's greatest unicorn, may finally be with us-albeit in text form. Marc Laidlaw, the now retired lead writer of the Half-Life series, has published what appears to be a summary of the plot of Half-Life 3, or Half-Life 2: Episode 3, entitled "Epistle 3."

Epistle 3 takes the form of a fictional letter directed to "Dearest Playa" from a character named "Gertie Fremont." It features a ship "Hyperborea," and alien bad guys called the "Disparate," which-when swapped out for original Half-Life names and places-makes the letter as close to a resolution to the series as players are likely to get.

An edited version of the synopsis on Pastebin-which is currently the only place to read it given the unwashed massed of the Internet have taken down Laidlaw's blog-has already replaced and the names places ready for reading. The beginning of the synopsis reads:

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