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E3 - Game Sites Get Hands-On With Half Life 2
metrazol writes "Over at GameSpy, they have a first hands-on preview of much anticipated, speculated, flamed, leaked sequel Half-Life 2. Hint: They love it." There's also a preview at GameSpot, and another over at IGN PC - elsewhere, The Inquirer notes that "ATI will bundle [Valve-developed] Counter Strike 2 with its X800PRO/XT cards", and CNN Money interviews the new President of Half-Life 2 publishers VU Games, who says Half-Life 2 is "still realistic" for a 2004 release (Valve are now saying that "the game should be out by this summer"), and argues: "The PC is far more profitable for us than the console... you're not playing platform fees to manufacturers, for one thing."
Its been around for a while. It is the Quake 3 Rocket Launcher, although people also seem to think it looks like a fire extinguisher.
Actually if you just use the key to register under Valve's content delivery system Steam, you'll get all the current games. Then when HL2 etc. comes out, you'll get those too. Steam will just automatically download them and give 'em to you.
Currently, they are saying that they'll bump the requirements up to 1Ghz CPU and a Directx7 level card (i.e., TNT2s wont cut it anymore)