{"id":1397711,"date":"2025-11-19T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecy5zAnL7RC45i6m4LDA5U"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:59:15","slug":"geoff-keighley-denies-hes-hiding-half-life-3-in-his-steam-wishlist-posts-a-screenshot-to-prove-it-nobody-believes-him-and-im-starting-to-wonder-if-hes-just-messing-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/geoff-keighley-denies-hes-hiding-half-life-3-in-his-steam-wishlist-posts-a-screenshot-to-prove-it-nobody-believes-him-and-im-starting-to-wonder-if-hes-just-messing-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Keighley denies he&#8217;s hiding Half-Life 3 in his Steam wishlist, posts a screenshot to prove it, nobody believes him, and I&#8217;m starting to wonder if he&#8217;s just messing with us"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Half-Life 3 fever has been running hot this week, for reasons\u2014and I use that term loosely\u2014<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/half-life-fans-are-in-a-frenzy-over-the-prospect-of-a-half-life-3-announcement-that-theres-almost-no-good-reason-to-believe-is-happening\/\">we laid out here<\/a>, which can very generally be described as &#8220;it&#8217;s November and we&#8217;re all a little bored and restless.&#8221; One small bit of pseudo-evidence did catch my eye, though: As PC Gamer&#8217;s freest man Tyler Wilde noted, &#8220;Geoff Keighley posted a \ud83d\udc40 emoji.&#8221; <em>What?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The whole thing began innocently enough\u2014or at least so it appeared. Keighley, host of The Game Awards, posted a message on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/geoffkeighley\/status\/1990519287032000600\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> urging his followers to &#8220;Check out #TheGameAwards nominee page on Steam to celebrate the best of the year.&#8221; He attached an image of the Steam front page, which\u2014because he was logged in at the time\u2014revealed that he has precisely <em>one game<\/em> in his wishlist.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1458px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:53.70%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"thezAkHL2EkvJYZkhkFFnj\" name=\"g3\" alt=\"Geoff Keighley has one game in his Steam wishlist\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geoff-keighley-denies-hes-hiding-half-life-3-in-his-steam-wishlist-posts-a-screenshot-to-prove-it-nobody-believes-him-and-im-starting-to-wonder-if-hes-just-messing-with-us.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1458\" height=\"783\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Geoff Keighley (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This did not go unnoticed by the ever-sharp <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Wario64\/status\/1990526450005651771\" target=\"_blank\">Wario64<\/a> (via <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/fps\/as-half-life-3-hopefuls-convince-themselves-that-an-announcement-is-imminent-geoff-keighley-accidentally-causes-chaos-with-a-screenshot-of-one-wishlisted-steam-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">GamesRadar<\/a>), who asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s the one game you have wishlisted?&#8221; Dozens of people shared their theories, and there were many and varied thoughts, but one overarching theme shone through:<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"> pic.twitter.com\/iQgOlqRPYG<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1990538346872123549\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Keighley himself really set things off, though, with his googly-eyes emoji response: A flood of hope and cope followed from people who wanted to believe, or at least who wanted to get in on the fun.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:115.16%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"dSE6YwPpWBVhLzu8u3HJRk\" name=\"g1\" alt=\"Check out #TheGameAwards nominee page on Steam to celebrate the best of the year. what's the 1 game that you have wishlis\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geoff-keighley-denies-hes-hiding-half-life-3-in-his-steam-wishlist-posts-a-screenshot-to-prove-it-nobody-believes-him-and-im-starting-to-wonder-if-hes-just-messing-with-us-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2211\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Geoff Keighley (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And this kind of baseless, wild speculation <em>is <\/em>fun\u2014frankly, I think whipping up the feeding frenzy every now and then is much more entertaining than Half-Life 3 itself could ever be. Remember Duke Nukem Forever, kids: Sometimes it&#8217;s better to dream of what could be than live with the reality of what is.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there is some basis for believing that Keighley has the inside track: He was working on a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/half-life-alyx-documentary-video-we-couldnt-possibly-make-it-for-mouse-and-keyboard\/\">Half-Life: Alyx documentary<\/a> for a couple of years before it was revealed to the world, after all. (Side note: Half-Life: Alyx was announced on November 18, 2019.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it took nearly a full day but Keighley eventually moved to quell the furor, revealing that his one and only wishlisted game is <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1096760\/Dadlympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dadlympics<\/a>, a 2024 multiplayer game &#8220;where dad jokes meet physics-based mayhem.&#8221; It was released in September 2024 and achieved a peak concurrent player count of six.<\/p>\n<p>You may be shocked to learn that this did not effectively put out the fire: The screenshot Keighley shared to prove he&#8217;s not hiding anything very clearly indicates that he added it to his wishlist on November 18, the day after the kerfuffle began. <em>What is he hiding?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Wario64\/status\/1990894464894673105\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:92.03%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"SxRVqy3Ni6vnLFMnQq8PDk\" name=\"g2\" alt=\"Dadlympics was added to Geoff Keighley's Steam wishlist on November 18, 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geoff-keighley-denies-hes-hiding-half-life-3-in-his-steam-wishlist-posts-a-screenshot-to-prove-it-nobody-believes-him-and-im-starting-to-wonder-if-hes-just-messing-with-us-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1767\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Geoff Keighley (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(My guess? Not Half-Life 3.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"52aed810-d4b5-4a87-86cd-f2b28d68b1d4\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geoff-keighley-denies-hes-hiding-half-life-3-in-his-steam-wishlist-posts-a-screenshot-to-prove-it-nobody-believes-him-and-im-starting-to-wonder-if-hes-just-messing-with-us-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"52aed810-d4b5-4a87-86cd-f2b28d68b1d4\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/geoff-keighley-denies-hes-hiding-half-life-3-in-his-steam-wishlist-posts-a-screenshot-to-prove-it-nobody-believes-him-and-im-starting-to-wonder-if-hes-just-messing-with-us\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half-Life 3 fever has been running hot this week, for reasons\u2014and I use that term loosely\u2014we laid out here, which can very generally be described as &#8220;it&#8217;s November and we&#8217;re all a little bored and restless.&#8221; One small bit of pseudo-evidence did catch my eye, though: As PC Gamer&#8217;s freest man Tyler Wilde noted, &#8220;Geoff Keighley posted a \ud83d\udc40 emoji.&#8221; What? The whole thing began innocently enough\u2014or at least so it appeared. Keighley, host of The Game Awards, posted a message on X urging his followers to &#8220;Check out #TheGameAwards nominee page on Steam to celebrate the best of the year.&#8221; He attached an image of the Steam front page, which\u2014because he was logged in at the time\u2014revealed that he has precisely one game in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/geoff-keighley-denies-hes-hiding-half-life-3-in-his-steam-wishlist-posts-a-screenshot-to-prove-it-nobody-believes-him-and-im-starting-to-wonder-if-hes-just-messing-with-us\/\">Read 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