Well the rumors are swirling that Half-Life 2 is just about done. As you guys know we
carried a story a little while ago mentioning that Valve was
submitting release candidates to
Vivendi doing their final bughunting. Word has it that Valve has submitted RC5
recently addressing just a couple of bugs. Assuming those are fixed and nothing more is
found in further testing we could be looking at a gold announcement in the very near
future. The guys at
CSNation,
HL2Fallout, and even the
former
GoneGold guy are all saying this.
This is of course assuming VU
doesnt
hold the game up in court. But given the last couple of glimpses we've had of VU's
financial situation they probably arent very eager to do that.
Update: the Steam website notes that the sixth phase of Half-Life 2 preloading is now underway. This phase will result in the Half-Life 2 maps being loaded on your computer, so Valve doesn't expect them to change much if at all.