The Gordon Freeman copium meme has never felt stronger.

A new video out of GameSoundCon, a convention about game music and sound design (who knew?), is quickly going viral today as Valve composer and audio artist Mike Morasky may have accidentally spilled the beans on the upcoming Half-Life project long rumored to be in the works.

Clipped by Tyler McVicker on X (and re-posted by noted Valve leaker gabefollower ), the video shows Morasky speaking on a panel during a Valve Q&A and mentioning “ HLX ” by name, likely the first time it’s been publicly acknowledged outside of lines of code. This project’s name has been found in Steam files a few times now, and it’s widely believed to be the internal codename for a new singleplayer game being developed by Valve.

Prevailing thoughts among the community of data miners and most leakers are that it’s a new Half-Life game. Half-Life 3 , maybe. Or Half-Life X ?…