Half-Life 2 Gone Gold!

Daniel Pass 18 Oct, 2004 at 5:14pm ET Article published in Tech

Vivendi Universal Games have just this moment announced that Half-Life 2, the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed PC titles in gaming history, will ship to retail outlets around the world in November. The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.

The countdown to the highly anticipated retail street date has begun around the world, as VU Games completes plans to ship localized versions of Half-Life 2 simultaneously in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai and Japanese.

Source: IC-Games.co.uk

Comments

18 Oct 2004 ~ 6:33pm TheSmJ F-ing finally!

After all the hints on HL2.net, I was pretty sure it'd be announced by the end of today.
18 Oct 2004 ~ 8:20pm pseudonym And there was much rejoicing.
18 Oct 2004 ~ 8:23pm Linc What was that crackling noise?

Oh...

Hell just froze over.
18 Oct 2004 ~ 8:25pm Thrax Now let's hope its hype was a good indicator of its real quality. *coughdoom3cough*
18 Oct 2004 ~ 8:30pm Linc

Thrax wrote:

Now let's hope its hype was a good indicator of its real quality. *coughdoom3cough*

oh man, not this again... doom3 was awesome :P

/me puts spelling errors into Thrax's upcoming article
18 Oct 2004 ~ 8:55pm Thrax That's insidious!

Hey. I liked doom 3 at first too. Then I realized I didn't really finish playing it, therefore it can't be that great. I agree with Prime in the end.

But spelling errors? YOU BASTARD.
18 Oct 2004 ~ 9:08pm Geeky1 Don't forget grammatical errors Keebs!!
19 Oct 2004 ~ 1:06am Nosferatu woohoo!