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Half-Life 2 Going Gold on Monday? [updated]

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the on-the-horizon dept.

Warrior-GS writes "According to GameSpy, Gabe Newell has announced that Half-Life 2 is going gold on Monday. Numerous retail outlets have Sept. 1 or Sept. 2 as a shelf-date for the game, so a gold announcement now seems to mean those dates are fairly close to reality." Given that HL2 is already available on Steam, this doesn't sound too far-fetched. Update: 08/28 19:27 GMT by T : Kraiger writes "According to HL2 Fallout the announcement of the futuristic FPS, "Half-Life 2", going Gold is a complete hoax! According to HL2 Fallout, the announcement from Gabe Newell, a Valve Software employee, was created by someone who was able to guess the simple password of "gaben" for Gabe's forum account."

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  1. HL2 Gold? by Reconfigures · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bullshit.

  2. Re:Not looking so hot after Doom 3... by ravenshrike · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cartoony?!?, you're playing D3 and you think the Characters in HL2 look cartoony?!?!? Hell the Characters in D3 look like playdough characters with a plastic sheen filtered over their faces. Have you even played CS: Source? Even the characters in that are more real then the characters in D3. That and if you really want to be scared you'll play Silent Hill 4 in the dark at midnight with a damned good 5.1 surround sound system. Of course if you're sacred of D3 you might have a heart attack but oh well!

  3. Re:Don't be a tool... by mlyle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And you're dumb. He's quoting from a survey with 956,900 samples, of which 58,022 are 'ATI Radeon 9600 Series', and 46,770 have a 9800. So his numbers form an acceptable lower bound saying there's at least 46000+58000 coupons out there. Not counting the fact that A) not everyone in the world participated in the survey, and B) other cards contained coupons.