1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. Valve's debut title wins more than 50 game-of-the-year awards on its way to being named "Best PC Game Ever" by PC Gamer, and launches a franchise with more than eight million retail units sold...
Emphasis mine. They mean HL2 Ep 3 was planned and canceled. Not HL3.
I don’t get it. The above commenter said episode 3, as well, and I don’t see an edit.
Hmm, I think I was responding within the context of some of the other replies, so I might have lost track of what OP said before responding.