I think my dad mentioned something about it first. Then I looked it up on IGN and found their preview on it. I also got to this forum through IGN--they had a short article about the emails from Valve that people were posting.
The very first place that any news about Half-life 2 was posted was a news article over at cnn.com
They had the first screenshot and the first information about the game....and no one else here said they saw it first at cnn.com so I guess I saw it before all of you
I was surfin' the web when I came over the scan with the combine shooting at the antlion in the 'orange map' and I couldn't believe my eyes. it was a low quality scan so the combine looked like a real guy and I went on searching for HL2 news daily until I found this site