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Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault

Posted by Zonk on from the thanks-for-making-my-weekend-guys dept.

Evil Avatar has the word that even Best Buy is selling Half-Life 2 boxes at this point. If you're planning on picking this one up it should be available pretty much anywhere. Voodoo Extreme has news from Steam that in no uncertain terms are the delays in opening the game to customers their fault. From the article: "This is not Valve's choice. Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 Steam authentication servers at this time."

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  1. going down the list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everquest 2... check
    Doom3... check
    Half-life 2... check
    Duke Nukem Forever... hmmm

    1. Re:going down the list by UniverseIsADoughnut · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you don't understand the concept of the game for Duke Nukem Forever, the whole game is the waiting, the wondering, the coming up with better and better jokes about duke nukem forever.

    2. Re:going down the list by garroo · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, No, No.... The whole "Duke Nukem Forever" thing is just a mistake! I'm telling you, in all seriousness... there was a big screw up when the canned the program.

      See, the reporters couldn't kept hounding the developers, even though they were told it was a Dead Game. Finally, after one guy asked for about the 1000th time: "How much longer will we have to wait for this?!?"

      To which the PR guy replied, "Duke Nuk'em? Forever."

      So you can see it was a simple grammar error that has caused so much consternation over the years. :-)

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      Oh my gawd, they killed kenny's mod points!!!!
  2. Re:you can buy it.. but you can't play it by Amorpheus_MMS · · Score: 5, Funny

    But you can drool over the box and wear your T-shirt until then!!

    Does it say I bought Half-Life 2, but all I can do is wear this stinking T-Shirt! ?