Valve has officially announced the vr game Half-Life: Alyx. The Game will be revealed on Thursday.

There have been rumors for years about a virtual reality game based on the Half-Life franchise. In 2015, the company indicated that it was still experimenting with VR and IP. But the last few days rumors started to flare up again due to a leaked interview.

Via Twitter, Valve announces that Half-Life: Alyx really exists and that the game will be revealed this Thursday at 19:00 Dutch time. There are no further details about the game yet.

The original Half Life game appeared on PC in 1998. A few years later, the game also came to PlayStation 2. The player is Gordon Freeman, a scientist who must find his way out of the Black Mesa Research Facility after an experiment with alien material goes wrong.

Continuation Half-Life 2 appeared in 2004. After that two more episodic sequels were released. The second episode ended with a cliffhanger and after that no new Half-Life game was released.