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Half-Life 2 Gets Episode 1

Posted by Zonk on from the has-to-be-better-than-phantom-menace dept.

Valve has announced that, instead of entitling their first downloadable mini-expansion to Half-Life 2 'Aftermath', the pack is now simply Episode 1. From the Gamespot article: "When asked whether the name change is indicative of a change in direction for the Half-Life 2 franchise, Valve marketing director Doug Lombardi replied, 'episodic.' When asked the follow-up question of whether the new name meant that beginning of a regular flow of content, Lombardi replied, 'yes.'"

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  1. Re:Too Vague. by ShinGouki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beg_the_question

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  2. Re:Episode 1: The Alien Menace by the-amazing-blob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey! That's not supposed to happen until episode 5!

  3. Re:Too Vague. by DeafByBeheading · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First they mangled "toe the line"... Then they mangled "bated breath"... Now they're mangling the meaning of "beg the question". What's next? "Call a spayed a spayed"?

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  4. Re:Too Vague. by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, how long are pedants going to persist in this pointless prescriptivism? The language has changed. Deal with it.

    When the language changes to become more ambiguous and less meaningful, those of us with an interest in precise communication can and must complain.

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