“Half-Life 2” to go Gold on Monday. Owner of SEB spazzes out.

Posted by Les on Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 08:56 AM. Read 445 times. Tags:
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According to this news item on PC.ign.com Valve has announced that Half-Life 2 will go Gold on Monday.

August 27, 2004 - In a bit of late-breaking news tonight, Gabe Newell, Managing Director of Valve Software, announced that Half-Life 2 is scheduled to go gold on Monday. For the uninitiated, “going gold” means the game (the 100% final version) has been copied to a disc and is being sent out to manufacturers for duplication. Going from duplication to retail shelves can take anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple months, depending on the size of the distribution and other factors.

As soon as we know the retail date, you’ll know, so stay tuned!

Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go and scare the cat by completely freaking out in a very unadult manner.

Update: The folks at Gamespy also have a news story up on this. Thanks to Ingolfson for the link.

Updated update: Looks like the announcement may have been faked. See the pc.ign.com article for more info. DAMMIT.

Thanks to Danny for the heads up.


Oh the sweet, sweet torture!

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ingolfson Germany Posted on 08/28/2004 at 02:31 PM

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Seems like the email from Valve might have been a fake. See the
Update.

Psilocybe United States Posted on 08/28/2004 at 03:04 PM

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Your dreams are crushed.  It’ll probably be another month or two, hahah.

ingolfson Germany Posted on 08/30/2004 at 03:22 PM

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Well, being ‘Gabe Newell’ and setting your password to ‘Gaben’…

Still, someone must have been MIGHTYLY bored to try out all those passwords.

Ingolfson

Serai Europe Posted on 03/10/2005 at 08:01 AM

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Hehe phone psychic, if you were really psychic you’d have realised how long the links to your retarded sites will remain here.

nowiser United States Posted on 03/10/2005 at 10:26 AM

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Phone Psychic logic is strange!  “I like your site [big happy smiles] That is why I am taking a big stinky poo on it [no graphic necessary]”

Too bad we can’t find out where they live, and go leave a flaming bag of poo on their doorstep.

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Les United States Posted on 03/10/2005 at 01:00 PM

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They’re gone now. It always amazes me when someone is willing to sit down to cut and paste comment spam to get around the captcha.

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