“Newell sees Half-Life 2 as an engine, a platform, or at best a whole industry unto itself,” gaming journalist Geoff Keighley, who Newell once gave a key card for Valve’s studios and told to “do whatever you want,” wrote for Gamespot in 2016. Creative blocks aside, perhaps Valve just has too many bigger fish to fry.

Valve has shared some Half-Life 2: Episode 3 footage for the first time ever. The company did so as part of a new documentary that also revealed some other details about what was planned for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 before its cancellation.

In a new two-hour documentary from Valve, current and former members of the company talk openly about the creation of Half-Life 2 as well as finally spilling the beans on what happened to Episode 3, and even showing gameplay of early prototypes of the canceled game.

Half-Life: Episode 3 remains one of the great what-ifs in gaming history. Now, on the occasion of Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, Valve has opened up about its development in a brand-new documentary that shows never-before-seen work-in-progress footage,