According to word from the folks over at Shacknews, the highly anticipated (by yours truly in particular) Half-Life 2 has been pushed back from it’s September 30th release date.
The previously announced September 30th release date for Half-Life 2 is being pushed back. We are currently targeting a holiday release, but do not have a specific “in-store” date to share at this time. We will release that information as soon as we have confirmed a new date.
And there was much gnashing of teeth. Oh well, I suppose I’ll have to hope it ends up under my Christmas tree as any pushback puts it squarely into the holiday season and I generally stop buying video games around November so as not to screw up anyone’s gift purchases for me. Guess I’ll have to use my Best Buy Gift Card on Medal of Honor: Breakthrough after all.
Posted on 09/24/2003 at 08:29 AM 
It shames me to say it (as an old guy) but I love Half Life! I most enjoy blasting my kid to bits in Killbox! I downloaded the movie demo of the new version and it is incredible! I was looking forward to getting the new release…hopefully it’s released before Xmas. I hope they don’t do what the Duke Nukem developers did...string people on forever and not release the product.
Here’s the same bogus statement 3DRealms has had on their website for years:
Bastards…don’t they know what harm they do???