Newell On Half-Life 2 Delay

Thanks to GameSpot for their brief interview with Valve's Gabe Newell, in which he discusses when the ravenously-awaited Half-Life 2 will finally come out. He laments: "I hate release dates because no matter how hard we try, we screw them up. We held back talking about our release date going into September 30th because I wanted to have a much clearer idea of what day we were going to ship on." As for an actual day, he offers: "Right now all we can say is holidays of this year, which to me feels really unfortunate." Elsewhere, Newell refuses to elaborate on the little-known multiplayer modes for the game, saying they're "...something we're not talking about because we want to keep it as a surprise for our customers as we roll into our launch cycle."

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The last time somebody wouldn't talk ...

[Nice2Cats]

... about some great new surprising feature, it was Master of Orion 3's Harvester race. Man, and what a great game that turned out to be.

Common, people, this isn't a film or a novel. If they are unwilling to discuss the concept with the gaming public at large, it sounds very much like their afraid it is going to be a shitty idea. If they believe in the multiplayer mode, they'd be screaming it from the rooftops to build up suspense.

This doesn't sound good at all.

Re:Lets not forget to mention

[ymgve]

Why would a source code leak mean delays? It's not like somebody stole the source and they don't have it anymore..