No Half-Life 2: Episode Two Delay

Howdy, all. As the author of the PC Gamer story, I wanted to clear something up. When PCG's August issue went to press, Valve hadn't yet
finalized a date for Episodes Two & Three, but indicated to us that they'd both be out by 2007. Since then, the studio has announced a target of Holiday
2006 for Episode Two, and the second half of 2007 for the Episode Three.

In short, PC Gamer did not misreport the release date--it has simply been updated.

Cheers,
-Kristen Salvatore

I have a question for you guys here. The other day I beat Half Life 2 Episode 1 for the 3rd time. Upon this, I decided that it would be fun to play the game with the directors comments on. I also thought that it would be fun to have unlimited ammo to do this, as I had already beat it 3 times, and I was no longer interested in the play of the game. Anyway, a google search turned up a trainer for EP1 that supposedly gave me unlimited ammo -- great I thought. Well, not great, I got an email from Valve 3 days later saying that my account had been disabled for cheating. I had no idea that cheating like this offline was against the valve anti-cheat policy. In fact, I had never even read the policy, as I dont play games online. And I never worry about cheating in online games. So, my account was permanently disabled. Now, not only did this disable Half life 2 Episode 1, but it disabled every game I had purchased with Steam!!!!!! I have bought every game they had on the service!! How can this be. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anyway to reverse this action. I thought I was a pretty good customer, but this is not a good way to treat someone who actually pays for their products. Please respond...

I think I'd still trust PC Gamer for news over 1Up, one of the lamer gaming news/review portals out there. That or ShackNews. :) ::: shameless sucking up:::

I'm still trying to play Episode 1 without crashing every fucking 5 minutes. I *might* have it done the time Ep2 comes out.

You just know it will be delayed. What Valve developed product has ever come out on time?

So long as it's great I'm in no rush. I'm so glad Episode 1 turned out as great as it did.

They better not! Else, I'll send Jim Ward after em.

They're probably still working out deals with video card manufactures and promising to include this with this fall's latest GPU.