UPDATE:
Court filings show VU Games has the right to sit on finished Half-Life 2 code for up to six months. Could it be deja vu all over again?
As part of GameSpot's ongoing look into the two-year old copyright infringement case that pits business partners Valve Inc. and Vivendi Universal...
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/09/20/news_6107712.html
The two-year-old dispute playing out in Federal Court revs up as milestones, court date approach.
Last week, news of Valve finally shipping the Half-Life 2 release candidate to publisher Vivendi Universal Games (VUG) grabbed...
Oh the humanity... It really is just priceless. It's like the mastercard commericals.
1. Buy a new PC - $800
2. Buy a New car - $15,000
3. Guess Gabe Newell's Password is GABEN - PRICELESS
LOL
If the Single-player is finished and ready to go, then yes - I would rather they release the game now and patch the bugs in Steam and the multiplayer later.
I don't care about the multiplayer right now anyway - I'm sure the single-player will have me wrapped up for a good two or three weeks...
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/235059.asp
Just changed this morning. I wonder if they know something we don't know, or if they are just doing their usual guesstimating.
I honestly would not be surprised if this game slips back to Jaunary 2005.
My oh my have we come such a long way. After last September's disaster and all the following month's drama, we're FINALLY getting tons of positivie news - an dates. Dates straight from the big guy (pun intended) himself!
Man I hope Half Life 2 lives up to it's hype. Doom 3 was such a letdown...
...should we be concerned? I really think Valve HAS to have something for us at home to chew on. Something NEW. Something we can get our hands on.
Be it a HL2 Benchmarking tool, the SDK, a playable Demo Level, or at the very least a never before released Movie Demostration, similar to LAST...