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Monday, August 30 2004

Half-Life 2 Gold Today ?  by Shane L at 07:03

Rumours on several sites over the weekend concerning HL2 and if it will be going gold today or not.
The long, dramatic saga of Half-Life 2's development cycle may finally be coming to a close. Earlier this evening, Gabe Newell, the head of Valve Software, left a short but sweet post on the HL2Fallout.com forums, simply stating "We're going gold Monday..

Hoax or not hoax..who knows but apparently the post was faked, with HL2 preloaded now and ready to roll myself personally I think release is imminent.
After a close scrutiny of Gabe Newell's account history on the forums, we've come to the conclusion that the gold post is a fake... After one crazy night of theories, server mayhem and IP tracing, we've finally gotten to the bottom of this mess. In a twist of hilarity, it seems that Gabe Newell's account password was set to 'gaben'. Person x guessed this and made the "going gold on Monday" post which we've heard so much about. The user (who we believe is the same person x) then made this post just minutes ago using Gabe's account:

ah well lets just wait and see.
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morkith
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30 August 2004 23:56
Probably still a few days yet.
Scrappy
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31 August 2004 09:58
I've lost interest now
Unless they release the full CS for it as soon as it comes out.
morkith
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31 August 2004 17:38
Well I was under the impression the only mod being released with HL2 was CS Source, ie will the extra maps etc, and hopefully less bugs.

CS2, TF2 and the rest are supposed to follow in the next few months, and depending what package you choose decides whether you have to pay for each mod.

As far as I know there is still no official annoucement has to waht the selection of "Packages" will be. No doubt this will follow after it goes gold.
Scrappy
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01 September 2004 07:26
There is no CS2. Some people are refering to CS Source as it and peeps have got confused. Why would they bring out another version of CS making Source redundant?


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