Half-Life 2 Books -- Press Release

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HALF-LIFE® 2 BOOKS IN STORES NOVEMBER 12

Raising the Bar and Official Game Guide Set to Ship

Roseville, California – (November 9, 2004) – Prima Games and Valve today announced the availability of the first two official Half-Life 2 publications – Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar and the official Half-Life 2 game guide – both scheduled to arrive in retail outlets around the world on Friday, November 12, 2004.

Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar is a 288-page, hard-bound publication that chronicles the origins of Valve, development of Valve’s first games, and covers the making of Half-Life 2 in great detail with hundreds of exclusive images, interviews and more.

The Half-Life 2 Official Game Guide, a 320-page full-color guide covering the most anticipated PC game of all time, features full-color maps, weapons details, bestiary tactics, hidden game elements, and more.

Visit your local or favorite online retailer now to purchase a copy of both publications. Or visit www.primagames.com for more information.

About Prima Games
Prima Games, a division of Random House Inc., is the world's leading publisher of strategy guides for computer and console video games, with more than 1,100 titles published and over 70 million guides in print. High quality strategy guides, extensive retail distribution and relationships with top game developers and publishers have allowed Prima Games to claim the highest market share among strategy guide publishers. More information can be found on the Web at www.primagames.com.

About Valve
Founded in 1996, Valve creates entertainment software titles, including Half-Life®, Counter-StrikeTM, and Team Fortress®. Valve's portfolio accounts for over 12 million retail units sold worldwide, and over 88% of the online action market. More information about Valve is available through the company’s Web site at www.valvesoftware.com.
 
Awesome, thanks Cliffe! I should get my Raising the Bar next week sometime :D.
 
Cool, should be getting it around the same time as HL2 then.
 
EB's date accurate then (It says the 11/11, so close). Maybe they will send it today then
 
Cool :D now to see if mum will let me borrow her credit card (haven;t found in NZ yet :S)
 
Oh god! Thank you, Cliff. You are truly one to be admired. Great work on everything you do. :cheers:
I'm picking all that up on the 12th. :D
I am so hyped! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
 
This just puts me back into perspective....the f'in game is coming out in less than a week....holy crap.

This is very good news. Only thing left to wonder about are the whereabouts of HL:S.........
 
I'm glad some people don't have trouble in publishing release dates, cliffe ;-)
 
Thanks Cliffe.

Could you answer a question though?

Will normal retailers be selling the raising the bar book aswell(norhtern europe)? or is it strictly online?
 
A hell no! I am sick of release dates so close to the weekends. I was hoping for the eleventh so I could actually read it during the weekend. Now I have to pay 10 dollars for a three day delievery.
 
cojawfee said:
A hell no! I am sick of release dates so close to the weekends. I was hoping for the eleventh so I could actually read it during the weekend. Now I have to pay 10 dollars for a three day delievery.

Or you could wait till the next weekend? No one is forcing you to read it anyway. In fact, I probably won't be reading it until after I finish Half-Life 2.
 
Cool, although i thought Raising the Bar was supposed to be ~360 pages :(

But still i can't wait to get my preorder.
 
Tha Prima Games Guide is massive. Made the Gold purchase feel worth it. Still I wont be reading it until after release. ;)

But it is a good buy for dedicated HL fans, and I'm sure Raising the Bar will be as well.
 
CLIFFE - can you just answer one question? will online stores (amazon.com etc) have the book in stock at the same time?

I ask because i have already pre-orders my copy online and I know many others have too and we are all eagerly waiting to get our hands on this lil beaut'
 
brisck1 said:
CLIFFE - can you just answer one question? will online stores (amazon.com etc) have the book in stock at the same time?

I ask because i have already pre-orders my copy online and I know many others have too and we are all eagerly waiting to get our hands on this lil beaut'

Amazon and other retailers should be getting their delivery from Prima tomorrow or Friday. So you'll need to tack on extra time for delivery from Amazon to you.
 
Feath said:
Or you could wait till the next weekend? No one is forcing you to read it anyway. In fact, I probably won't be reading it until after I finish Half-Life 2.

Raising the Bar would have given me something to do as I wait for Half Life 2. Now I get about one day to look through it before I start playing HL2.
 
Cliffe can you check your PM's please?? I'm dieing knowing i wont be able to play HL2!!

(sorry for off topic - im desperate)
 
Thanks very much Cliffe i love Valve and Steam. :)
 
I'm gonna order it from Amazon I guess... (I doubt any local retailers will carry a foreign game book...) But I'm not in a hurry, I won't read it untill after HL²
 
Im guessing gameplay.com wont get it to me this week :/
 
i'm definately getting the strat guide from somewhere, i'll just have to take a peek at the raising the bar book before i decide if I want that too.
 
Cool, I've just ordered both of them (Amazon.co.uk). I've also preordered the mod makers guide. Does anybody (maybe Cliffe himself? :naughty:) know when it is supposed to become available?
 
bah, i thought there he was going to mention a novel or something.
 
Ahnteis said:
The real question is: What is this book?! No one will tell me.

:dozey: Book guiding you through on how to create mods; maps, skins, full conversions.
 
There are a stack of the half life 2 strat guides sitting in my local wal-mart.
Heres an idea! Ill go buy them up and ebay them for profit!!!! Bwahahaha!

I call BS
 
Jarman said:
Cool, I've just ordered both of them (Amazon.co.uk). I've also preordered the mod makers guide. Does anybody (maybe Cliffe himself? :naughty:) know when it is supposed to become available?

Edit: I should learn to read.
 
sage said:
This news is fake... There are a stack of the half life 2 strat guides sitting in my local wal-mart.

Heres an idea! Ill go buy them up and ebay them for profit!!!! Bwahahaha!

I call BS

Fake in what way? Fake because they are already out?
 
Jarman, after a Google search I saw the release date as March 8th of 2005 for the modding book. I'm sure we'll learn a lot on our own by then!
 
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