The final coding will head to Vivendi in the next few days and Valve announced that mid/late September, the game will be released!
"When it's done", is the oft borrowed phrase which canny developers use to thwart our polite journalistic enquires about release dates. But now, finally ending months of speculation, Valve's Doug Lombardi seems to have confirmed that the most eagerly awaited PC title of this, or indeed any other year, is finally done.
According to Lombardi, Half-Life 2 will be passed on to publishers Vivendi "within days" for final mastering and duplication, well within Valve's target August delivery date - he has added that the game will hit retail mid- to late September.
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"When it's done", is the oft borrowed phrase which canny developers use to thwart our polite journalistic enquires about release dates. But now, finally ending months of speculation, Valve's Doug Lombardi seems to have confirmed that the most eagerly awaited PC title of this, or indeed any other year, is finally done.
According to Lombardi, Half-Life 2 will be passed on to publishers Vivendi "within days" for final mastering and duplication, well within Valve's target August delivery date - he has added that the game will hit retail mid- to late September.
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Additionally, McNealy said, "We believe that SNE is preparing now for the production of its next-generation of products, from the Sony PlayStation Portable to the next-generation PlayStation console and other consumer electronics devices that will be based on its cell processor."
Suggesting such a ramp-up was one of the reasons the game division earnings had slumped, Katsumi Ihara, group chief financial officer for Sony, reportedly said at a Tokyo news conference. "For the PSP and the next-generation entertainment system we continue to have a high level of investment which is bringing down profit."
Sony's net sales for the quarter were flat at 1.6 trillion yen ($14.8 billion), up just 0.5 percent from the previous year, and operating income was 9.8 billion yen ($87.7 million), down from 16.7 billion yen ($149 million) a year earlier.
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ohh well. did everyone remeber theif III that was HALF way finished and they released it for whatever reason. they still havent released a patch to fix things that are missing.
CNN has learned that masked terrorists stormed the offices of Valve Software earlier today. Apparently disgruntled that the game Half-Life 2 was delayed last year and had not been relased yet this year, these masked men took it upon themselves to steal the source code for the game.
Valve spokesperson *insert name here* confirmed the reports stating that "14 lines of code had been stolen and for this reason Valve Software must now delay the release of Half-Life 2 until November 2007."
"We feel we can compete with the games of 2007, just as we could have competed against games this year such as Doom 3 or Duke Nukem Forever. In 2007 the only game we might have to compete with is the Unreal Engine 3 based game Unreal 3. We feel our engine is mightly better than UE3, so nyeh nyeh."
Stay tuned to CNN for more information on this story.
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I'm always so straight and arrow about things. Oh well. Can't please everyone all of the time.
They can just deploy bugfixes daily thru steam and treat retail clients like ****, like they've been doing with Condition Zero. Now steam's idea sounds plausible, since releasing hotfixes like mad is a practice only made by Microsoft (and the whole reason behind Microsoft jokes).
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