

OP literally asks like 10 relevant questions for this place, and names their reasons for not naming specific instances. And all you focus on, is the question: who did it?
To me that is proof that OP did the right thing here.
Lets first figure out how to approach this without knowing the pupotrator.













Why give the game a number? Just call it after the new protaganist, while creating another game that lays a lot of groundwork for a whole new generation of gaming. (It’s just VR gaming this time.)
HL Alyx was really groundbreaking for its time in the VR world. Few other games combined the user experience, VR immersion, and grapichs into a good game. Just like how HL2 was groundbreaking in the physics department.