The sneaky community, as always, has found a way into Valve's active project database, while this access has now been blocked the internet has already made a list on Pastebin. The full list is available there and it holds some interesting project titles.

While there are some clear jokes on the list such as "gayben" and "WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB_EWEWEWEWEWEWEW_GAGAGAGAGAGA" and "Yo Dawg" among many others, there are some more serious titles in the list. Such as "Half-Life 3", "Steam Box", "Left 4 Dead 3" and even "Source 2".

There is also a post on Valve Time that has screen captions from within various "Jira" groups, which is how the community gained access to this database. Jira is a database program that Valve uses to manage its projects and track bugs. Among the images is a list showing all 42 employees that are listed in the mailing group for Half-Life 3, which as Valve Time points out is a substantial number considering Valve only has roughly 300 employees in total. Some of the names will be recognisable by those who know the names of key Valve employees and what they have worked on.

While this probably does not come as a shock to many that Valve is indeed working on a new Source engine, Half-Life 3 and even a new Left 4 Dead. It also becomes apparent from the list that Valve is working on Half-Life 2: Episode 3 and some kind of "movie" based on it. There is also a title for "CS2" next to "CSGO", thus it seems Valve is also working on a new Counter-Strike to launch in conjunction with Half-Life 3 and the Source 2 engine. Do bear in mind though that some of the titles in the list are no longer in development.