Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/techno.../half-life-3-confirmed-valve-security-2334759
Production of Half-Life 3 has been confirmed after Valve's database briefly became open to the public.
Valve's Jira database - which the teams use to track bugs - exposed itself for a short period of time, allowing fans to see what was happening in the system.
Users could see various internal development groups currently on the Valve roster, including one marked "Half-Life 3".
That group has 46 staff members assigned and another marked "Half-Life 3 Core" had a staff total of 10.
Many of the people listed also worked on Half-Life 2.
Screenshot of Valve's rosta
The list includes Adam Foster, who created the Half-Life 2 mod Minerva; sound designer and musician Kelly Bailey; David Speyrer, a supervisor on Half-Life 2; and Half-Life series veterans Jeff Lane and Jim Hughes.
Rounding out the team are Portal and Left 4 Dead co-writer Erik Wolpaw, level designer John Guthrie, Jean Rochefort, Karl Whinnie, Sergiy Migdalskiy, Michael Coupland, writer Marc Laidlaw and Ken Banks.
This happened the day after Valve registered Half-Life 3 as a trademark, and the week after Valve announced ambitious plans to launch a range of gaming hardware.
This new incident does indicate that the project has expanded and is ramping up to full-scale production.
Production of Half-Life 3 has been confirmed after Valve's database briefly became open to the public.
Valve's Jira database - which the teams use to track bugs - exposed itself for a short period of time, allowing fans to see what was happening in the system.
Users could see various internal development groups currently on the Valve roster, including one marked "Half-Life 3".
That group has 46 staff members assigned and another marked "Half-Life 3 Core" had a staff total of 10.
Many of the people listed also worked on Half-Life 2.
Screenshot of Valve's rosta
The list includes Adam Foster, who created the Half-Life 2 mod Minerva; sound designer and musician Kelly Bailey; David Speyrer, a supervisor on Half-Life 2; and Half-Life series veterans Jeff Lane and Jim Hughes.
Rounding out the team are Portal and Left 4 Dead co-writer Erik Wolpaw, level designer John Guthrie, Jean Rochefort, Karl Whinnie, Sergiy Migdalskiy, Michael Coupland, writer Marc Laidlaw and Ken Banks.
This happened the day after Valve registered Half-Life 3 as a trademark, and the week after Valve announced ambitious plans to launch a range of gaming hardware.
This new incident does indicate that the project has expanded and is ramping up to full-scale production.