Half Life 2 delayed...who knew?

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/28497

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.

i smell an exchange of a large sun of money from a video card manufactuer

this hasnt come as a surprise, it was totaly expected.

I guess they needed more time to make it work with nVidia cards.

I saw it coming from a mile away.   BTW I just bought a Gigabyte K7 Triton GA7N400 Pro MOBO, a AMD Athlon XP 2500 333MHZ processor and 256MB of 333MHZ DDR memory so I can play it...I havent put it in yet (that is for the other thread I am going to start).

:hat:ScotyJ:hat:

[Kurt Angle]

It won\'t hurt to wait a little longer I suppose.

According to EB it is now slated for a February 2004 release date.

Ohh, what\'s this?  Half Life 2 NOT delayed now?

http://www.gamershell.com/news_BHalf-Life2BGold.shtml

Gabe Newell let us know that the \'news\' posted on Shacknews yesterday (story) is a fake and that Half-Life 2 has gone Gold and in production now. Here\'s the official word: "The release will still remain on schedule for Sep 30th. People who have pre-orded it via Steam will still get it before the Sep 30th but we are currently ironing out a couple of bugs, people may have seen Half Life 2 yesterday for a minute on it while we were in our testing stages (...) The SDK will be available for download tomorrow 2.00pm EST. Now you\'ve heard it from the horses mouth so rest assured. More news to follow on Sep 26th so watch this space."

http://www.city-17.net/#668

More On The Half-Life 2 Delay
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I just visited HL2Central.net and read their most recent news post. I figured it would make a good post for all those that don\'t visit any other news sites. The post was about a fake email announcement sent out to news sites. After reading the post on HL2Central.net I checked our news submittion email here, and of course, the same email they speak of was in our inbox. So, here it is:
My apoligies to those affected by the e-mail that made it\'s way around
news sites in past hours. Unfortunately it was nothing more than a cruel
joke. Doug Lombardi sent no such e-mail.

I can assure you there is no such Half-Life 2 delay, and that details
regarding the release will be made public in coming days. Expect the
tech-demo and SDK to be released on or prior to the 30th.

Thanks for your patience and understanding,
Gabe Newell
This email was supposedly sent out from gaben@valvesoftware.com, however, as HL2Central.net discovered, it did not actually originate from Valve at all. HL2Central.net and City-17.net can confirm that the email from Doug Lombardi, stating Half-Life 2 is delayed, is genuine.

Update: To avoid confusion, the only fake email is the one above, supposedly from Gabe stating that Half-Life 2 isn\'t delayed. That was fake and was traced to Brisbane, Australia. The Delay email from Doug Lombardi is not fake. We traced this directly to Valve.

Update: This is for those who still don\'t understand why this email was posted, and where it came from. At the time of posting, HL2Central.net had a post on their webpage about the email that is in my post here. Because they were the first webpage to have any information about this email, I gave them credit for it. Now, because there were only 3 sites targeted by this fake email, they found no point in keeping the post on the site, so they removed it. Now, that makes my post seem to be in the wrong. However, it is not. If you still don\'t understand, well then I can do nothing more for you.

Who to believe who to believe.

Lol, what a circus...

[Kurt Angle]

It\'s out when its out.

Why do they have to release an SDK?  It will be riddled with hacks before the end of the year.

Uh, don\'t they have to release an SDK so that mod teams can begin work?

Originally posted by Blade
Uh, don\'t they have to release an SDK so that mod teams can begin work?

Indeed they do

And the majority of the mods suck, so to me it\'s not worth it.  I hope this version is more secure than the original.  They better have come up with SOME KIND OF SYSTEM for reducing hacking in online play.

they are using a whole different on-line front end called STEAM.

scottyJ

I hope they\'ve addressed the cheating issue as well