Sometimes I am afraid Valve has lost interest in Half-Life. They've had two huge unexpected successes since the HL days in Left 4 Dead and Portal, and have already made sequels for both of them. Hopefully DOTA 2 doesn't blow the world away and becomes Valves next big obsession that they drop everything else for. I'd hate to think we might see Left 4 Dead 3, Portal 3, and DOTA 4 before a Half-Life 3 is announced.

As for Monkey Island, we need to get Ron Gilbert interested in a kickstarter for his original vision of Monkey Island 3. Complete with old graphics and all (I am so tired of hearing about this kickstarter fad, everybody and everything has a kickstarter now and it is all anyone talks about. Maybe it is a good idea, maybe good things will come of this. It just seems everyone has become true believers in this, and it is still too early for anything to have come from any of it).