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Half-Life 2 Delayed?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the just-a-little-while-longer dept.

Cirrus writes "Gamers had a bit of a disappointment when they found out that Doom III would not be available this year as previously hoped. Well, now it appears that Half-Life 2 will not be shipping until December. As a Half-Life fan, I can say that I would rather have to wait a couple months than sacrifice the quality just for an earlier release date." Update: 07/30 18:17 GMT by CN : There's an update over at Shacknews that says that Valve is still on schedule, so maybe I (and several other sites) totally jumped the gun on this one. Here's hoping.

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  1. Delay by Steve+Gibson · · Score: 4, Informative

    We've been following up with several different sources including the developers and everything we've heard has pointed to the alleged "delay" being false info.

    We're just waiting on an official statement to make a follow-up post sealing the deal.

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    -Steve Gibson
    Shacknews.com
  2. Not true... by Iscariot_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    From ShackNews:

    A number of gaming sites out there are carrying word of an alleged Half-Life 2 delay according to some folks at Vivendi Universal who are publishing the title retail for Valve Software. However word doesnt seem to have traveled down to Valve according to an email pulled from the Steam forums. (We havent been able to directly confirm or deny with anyone at Valve yet) who might know a thing or two about that. timm of Shacknews comments fame already pointed out this Gabe Newell response:

    First time I've heard about this.

    See the whole post here.

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    Go here for teh [sic] funny.
  3. again with the late articles by y0bhgu0d · · Score: 2, Informative

    Avidgamer had this yesterday...

    better writeup, too. *shrug*