Despite Valve making big announcements regarding the Steam OS, Steam Machines, and Steam Controller, it is the fact that Half-Life 3 may have been confirmed that has fans talking.

According to Geek, Half-Life 3 has been confirmed to be in development by not one, but two separate pieces of evidence.

The first evidence is that a trademark has been filed for Half-Life 3 in Europe on September 29. While a trademark is often only a security measure and does not necessarily confirm a product release, many are seeing this as a sign that Half-Life 3 is confirmed.

The second evidence is much more tantalizing.

Reportedly, someone has hacked into a Valve software called Valve User Picker, which is used for project management and bug tracking. Through User Picker, Valve employees are split into development teams.

Through this hack, it has been confirmed that two Half-Life 3 teams are currently at work on the sequel, one called Half-Life 3 Core and the other simply Half-Life 3.

In total, there are 47 employees working on Half Life 3 between the two teams, including Adam Foster, a name fans recognize as the producer of the Minerva mod for Half-Life 2.

Although this is still not an official confirmation, it is by far the closest we've come in terms of Half-Life 3.