The most recent piece of Half-Life 3 (or Half-Life 2: Episode 3) concept art, however, has broken that mold, and been confirmed as 'legit' by Valve community mods.
The legitimacy of Half-Life promotional news and images has, for quite some time, been suspect to criticism by every gamer in existence, but nonetheless new images seem to pop up at least once a month, only to have that information rendered useless by diligent detective work or comments by Valve.