Half-Life 2 Not On Xbox?

Thanks to Evil Avatar for pointing to a Puget Sound Business Journal story suggesting that Half-Life 2 may not come out for Xbox after all. This relatively obscure article has word from David Hufford of Microsoft that "As of now, Half-Life 2 is not going to be on the Xbox.. Valve is sending us mixed messages on that." Up to now, established sites such as Planet Half-Life have said of the sequel: "An Xbox port is very likely", but it looks like that may no longer be true. Update: 06/09 21:34 GMT by S : GameSpyDaily have got hold of Valve's Doug Lombardi, who is saying that Half-Life 2 is still planned for both PC and Xbox - it may be that either contract negotiations or simply misinformation is clouding the issue.

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Not true

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I'm constantly suprised at how great my Xbox console looks compared to my much technically superior PC. Other than Enemy Territory, my "Superior" machine is generating dust and is generally nowhere near as fun. Do you have any recommendations for killer games for the PC that can actually justify an insane hardware upgrade cycle? (Not future titles, current ones) And I don't care for RTS or uninspired FPS's either.

Of course the better resolution and key/mouse is an advantage, but in heated matches of RTCW on both systems, resolution doesn't become much of an issue anymore (it would if my TV were the same size as my monitor, but that's not the case).

And as far as the key/mouse is concerned - yes, there's no denying that it's insanely better. But I'm so used to console shooters it feels great playing that way as well, and you know everyone else is "handicapped" by the gamepad so it evens out the playing field and you can become just as skilled as if you were using keyb/mouse.

Anyway, off on a rant. To sum it up, PC=Good, Xbox=Better.