Half-Life 2 (PC)

[Concept]

It's available. Just in extremely small quantites no doubt, meaning it gets picked up by anyone who has put in a pre-order or has been sharking around for the merest hint.

Reports I read put it from anywhere between mid-September to October for widespread release. I over-reacted before. I can't imagine ATI not launching the x800XT in large amounts before Half-Life 2 launches. Not after seeing Nvidia do quite nicely in the run up to Doom III.

Not being ready for Half-Life 2's launch would give Nvidia another boost (i.e. impatient folk like me would go out and buy a 6800), which I doubt they'd be willing to do.

But you're right. The PC gaming market is in serious rude health, with the FPS genre perhaps being the strongest across all formats at the moment.

[Spatial]

Well none of us saw this coming

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=56182

Earlier this week, Lombardi told Eurogamer, "we are planning to deliver a release candidate to Vivendi in August and we're hoping to see the product on store shelves this fall but we do not have a confirmed ship date at this time."

The week of September 30th anyone ?

[Concept]

:S

Are my posts invisible?

[demon9k]

Good job on finding the news Spatial


As for the date, sooner the better as long as its after the 20th of August

[Len]

Well at least this will finally get me to sort out my new 'puter, only been waiting the last year or so.

Hassle but worth it methinks...

[Spatial]

:S

Are my posts invisible?

Who said that ? Can someone hear something ?



Yeah, its been mentioned before but I posted that one as well as there's been numerous confirmations of that bit of news now from various different sources, so its more than just the usual :-

OMG Ha1f L1fe 2 is teh go1d111!!!!!!

news.


Or it could just be that after a mammoth 530 posts I've lost track of everything

[Len]

I'll go for the latter...

[Spatial]

New screens released.

Well, they're new official pictures of old settings / monsters but its still floats my proverbial boat

[Len]

They look...bloody great!

Come on, come on, it better be end of Sept (famous last words)...

[Chadruharazzeb]

Ynerghn!!!!

Hope this bast performs better than Doom 3 on my ageing rig.

[Tom Salter]

Them Starship Troopers-style enemies look ace!

[Dache]

Muahahah, they're also in widescreen format. The reason I bought a widescreen monitor.

[Spatial]

OH MY ****ING GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!

Taken from HL2.Net

Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve Software, has confirmed pre-load dates for the upcoming Counter-Strike: Source beta. Along with this he has also confirmed the date that Half-Life 2 will start pre-loading through Steam!

Here's the full post from Gabe:
Quote:
Just got out of a review meeting. 8/11 the Cafe's turn on (tomorrow). 8/16 CZ/ATI users pre-load. 8/18 CZ/ATI turns on. 8/17 HL-2 pre-load starts (textures, audio and other stuff that doesn't change).




I've just done an almighty sex wee in my pants !!!1111!!!!!11111!!!!!

[Ish]

Joy joy joy

I love the style of all the aliens I've seen... they look ace!

[Super Stu]

Actually, the outdoors isn't looking as 'next gen' as the indoor sections suggested, though perhaps that's just jpeging.

Still, it's halflife