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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. Re:And the hardware to run it... by Zorilla · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...which will be running on the next iteration of Windows, which will have hardware ready to run it by 2016.

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  2. It would help to NOT make Half Life too intensive by xot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I think the key to the success of CounterStrike & Half Life is that these are not Ultra new age , system hogging games.
    They run on moderately powered PC's as compared to Unreal and other system heavy games.Thats what created the mass apeal as a larger amount of people can play them.If they follow the same principle i think It should do better than the first part.

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  3. HL is great but what about Team Fortress? by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone have any info on when TF2 will be released?

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