Valve trademarks Half-Life 3 in Europe

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Half-Life 3 is official(wait for it)ly trademarked in the European Union. NeoGAF users (via Polygon) spotted the registered trademark from Valve with the European Union's Trade Marks and Designs Registration Office, which was filed on Sept. 29.

No equivalent trademark has appeared on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's online register.

This doesn't mean a Half-Life 3 announcement is pending, of course--it could just be Valve getting in on the mark early to ward off squatters. At the very least, it lends credence to the idea that the next Half-Life (the first since 2007's Half-Life 2: Episode 2) will drop the episodic nomenclature.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.