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Half Life 2 Retail Sales Hit 1.7 Million

Posted by Zonk on from the so-many-headcrabs! dept.

blueZhift writes "It looks like PC gaming is not dead yet! GamesIndustry.biz reports that retail sales of Valve's Half Life 2 have topped 1.7 million. There aren't any numbers available for online sales via Steam, but these are impressive numbers for any platform, console or PC."

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  1. The Future by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 2, Funny

    So 1.7 million people are going to be really pissed in like 5 years when Valve gets bought out by EA and EA discontinues the Steam servers making everybodies HL2 game unplayable.

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  2. "from the so-many-headcrabs! dept." by chalkoutline · · Score: 2, Funny

    more like so-many-god-damned-ant-lions dept. curse them and their protective hides!

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  3. PC gaming dead? by BigDogCH · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did i miss something in the last few weeks? Why would pc gaming be dead?