A few days ago, we spoke about how Monday Night Combat producer Chandana Ekanayake claimed to have met a Valve employee wearing a Half-Life 3 T-shirt, at an unnamed game development event. At the time, I didn’t think much of this. It could either be fake, or, at best, it could simply be a prank from a sneaky Valve dev. I imagined that it meant absolutely nothing.

But then this happened.