Half Life 2 delayed until April 2004

Hollywood · **Half Life 2 delayed until April 2004 -** 10-07-2003, 07:23 AM

http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/07/technol ... tm?cnn=yes

pest · 10-07-2003, 07:30 AM

Still not confirmed.
Some places say its a rumor, others say its a bad translation, yada, yada, yada......

Kind of makes Doom's " It will be out when its done" attitude refreshing.

Hollywood · 10-07-2003, 07:32 AM

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=3568878

Reuters also confirmed it

pest · 10-07-2003, 07:40 AM

It lookslikeits true, but even without the added delay, it was still month(s) away. I refuse to get too excited until it is certain it is coming out.

Bazooka_Joe · 10-07-2003, 07:42 AM

10 to 1: Doom 3 devs are responsible. oOo:

They got it from hacking his email? How do you send 1/3 of uncompressed game data via email? Haven't you heard of fed-ex?

Hollywood · 10-07-2003, 08:06 AM

Joe you b00n, they exploited MS Outlook but only to get into the system, they didn't use e-mail to actually get the source. Rude says it was a keylogger but I assume it was trojan that gave the attacker full access tot he system, and they just transfered the source.

pest · 10-07-2003, 11:00 AM

Heh, looks like this HL2 report is turning out lke all the rest. Unconfirmed rumor, contrdictory statements, etc.

I will have to reserve judgement until it is listed as confirmed by someone like IGN or Blues News. Until then, its rumor.

Time will tell.

Bane · 10-07-2003, 11:27 AM

Confirmed by Christophe Ramboz, VU Games President of International Operations:

[url:78cbf]http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/news_6076466.html[/url:78cbf]

pest · 10-07-2003, 11:40 AM

Taken from blues news, under the quote you linked to above.

Update: Half-Life Source (ironically titled, under the circumstances) has their report based on visiting Valve saying that "only a SMALL PORTION" of the source has been stolen, and an email they attribute to "Mike Thompson who says he works for Vivendi Universal" saying "delay is not confirmed..." Did I mention this might not be the last word on this subject?

Again, until I see it somewhere I know I can trust, quoting something other than Vivendi Europe, its still rumor to me. I keep hearing too many things about HL2, about half of which end up being false.

Hollywood · 10-07-2003, 12:04 PM

Well I know from seeing it with my own eyes that it is a lot more then a "SMALL PORTION". Exactly how much has yet to be seen, if it can be compiled at all that is.

pest · 10-07-2003, 12:27 PM

I have a hard time believing any of it at this point.

Who knows about the "small portion". A small portion of 100,000 lines of code? 10,000,000,000 lines of code?

Dunno.

I am not arguing whether it is true or not, I am just saying I am a skeptic (sp?) at this point.

pest · 10-07-2003, 03:46 PM

Not exactly the quality source I was hoping for.....but this one says the earlier ones were false.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11984

1080jibber · 10-07-2003, 03:50 PM

screen shots of hl2, i cant wait to get my hands on it

[url:da719]http://matfors.net/halvarsson/hl2/[/url:da719]

SoLiDUS · 10-07-2003, 05:21 PM

Irrelevant news for me. I have the BETA in my possession!

Bean 2 · 10-07-2003, 05:37 PM

How well does it run? What type of computer are u running it on? And last but not least, how is it?