The Final Hours of Half-Life 2 45
IvyMike writes "Gamespot just published a 25-page article titled The Final Hours of Half-Life 2. It has inside details of the missed September 30th, 2003 ship date, the source-code leak, and hints at future projects from Valve." Relatedly, kraemer writes "Valve has said publicly they would unlock Half Life2 before the November 16th street date if stores start selling it early. Well, Stores are selling it early. In an attempt to show Valve whats going on Shacknews is having a contest to come up with verifiable proof."
Wrong wrong wrong! (Score:5, Informative)
This is entirely false, VALVe never said it. ShackNews made it up. It turns out what VALVe said was that the STEAM version would unlock when the retail version shipped. Obviously they meant that they'd both be the same date, which turned out the be the 16th. What ShackNews interpreted that as is that if the retail version comes out early via leak, the STEAM version would too.
ShackNews is just digging themselves a hole for something that VALVe has already said isn't going to happen (and that they never said that).
Why gather evidence? The game will come out in just over 2 days (2 days 6 hours at this point). WAIT for it damnit. Stop whining like goddamned 10 year old AOLers.
Half-Life 2 won't be unlocked on Steam before 16th (Score:2, Informative)
"Half-Life 2 For Sale?" [steampowered.com]
Apparently they would be in violation of the contract they have with Vivendi if they unlocked the game files before the 16th.