Thanks to Shacknews for this little piece of news, EA and Valve have apparently signed an agreement which will see EA distribute Half-Life 2 Game of the Year edition and Counter-Strike: Source , as well as Half-Life 2 for the Xbox.

Redwood City, Calif. and Bellevue, WA – July 18, 2005 – Electronic Arts, the world's leading interactive entertainment company and Valve®, the award-winning studio behind the blockbuster franchises Half-Life® and Counter-StrikeTM, today announced that the two companies have entered a multi-year agreement to deliver a collection of Valve games to players worldwide. The first two games to be released under this agreement are Half-Life 2: Game of the Year and Counter-Strike: SourceTM for PC, both launching this fall. In addition, Half-Life 2 for the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, currently in development at Valve and targeted for release in October, will be published and distributed worldwide by EA.

So all the buggyness of Valve and all the problems EA has had with BF2, seems like the perfect arrangement.