Valve Trademarks Half-Life 3 in Europe

Killvion · Oct 2, 2013

The Half-Life 3 trademark filing in Europe may not mean anything - but maybe it does.

NeoGAF appears to be having some technical difficulties at the moment but before misfortune struck, it dug up the very interesting news that Valve has filed a trademark for "Half-Life 3" with the Trade Marks and Designs Registration Office of the European Union. The filing was made on September 29 and covers "Computer game software; Electronic game software; Downloadable computer game software via a global computer network and wireless devices; Video game software."

Wow! So an official announcement of Half-Life 3 is surely just around the corner, right? Well, no. I mean, maybe, but not necessarily. Filing a trademark in and of itself doesn't mean anything except that the party making the filing wants to hold the trademark; on the other hand, as superannuation noted on Twitter, the theory that Valve filed the mark simply to protect the name doesn't really hold water because it already has a "Half-Life" trademark.

Where does that leave us? Rumor, innuendo, perhaps slightly more hopeful than yesterday and still completely in the dark. I think the great likelihood is that the wheels are turning - Valve doesn't do anything without a purpose, after all - but it's been ten years and an awful lot of disappointment since Half-Life 2. We'll update if and when we hear more but in the meantime, temper your optimism accordingly.
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DataStorm · Oct 2, 2013

I also saw a leak of a tour in valve of L4D3 and Source2 being actively worked on.

Jer9 · Oct 2, 2013

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B.A baramous · Oct 2, 2013

guess it might actually come out. hope it can handle the coming hypestorm

Killvion · Oct 5, 2013

The Half-Life 3 trademark filing in Europe that came to light this week may not have been quite as solid as it appeared.

A trademark filing for Half-Life 3 turned up in the Trade Marks and Designs Registration Office of the European Union at the tail end of September and while it's hard not to see such things with a jaundiced eye, the OHIM site it appeared on is legit - and the timing, given Valve's recent flurry of Steam Machines activity, appeared to make sense too. Nothing sells boxes like a killer app, after all, and there ain't no killer app like a Half-Life 3 killer app.

But the filing has now disappeared from the site, and the whole thing is starting to look like it might have been a hoax. EGM poked around at the process and determined that "theoretically," it's no great feat to submit a trademark application using the name of any company already in the OHIM database. On the other hand, the "basic filing fee" is 900.00€ - more than $1200 - so it's not the kind of stunt that your run-of-the-mill internet joker is likely to pull.
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DataStorm · Oct 6, 2013

hmm, prolly Valve themselves hoaxing for the SteamOS box

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