Half-Life 2 Fool's Gold

[CSN NewsBot]

Recently there was a post made on the HL2 Fallout Forums under Gabe Newell's account claiming that Half-Life 2 would be going gold on Monday. This post has been confirmed a hoax. An anonymous imposter guessed Gabe's password, "gaben", and made the false claim. Valve has confirmed that this was a hoax on the Steam Forums.



Here are the full details straight from Mr Bond:

Update: After one crazy night of theories, server mayhem and IP tracing, we've finally gotten to the bottom of this mess. In a twist of hilarity, it seems that Gabe Newell's account password was set to 'gaben'. Person x guessed this and made the "going gold on Monday" post which we've heard so much about. The user (who we believe is the same person x) then made this post just minutes ago using Gabe's account [announcing that he guessed Gabe's pass as "gaben"]



After a quick double-check, it seems that this was exactly what happened. Reminds me of the good old days. For an official response concerning the hoax, see Chris Bokitch's post on Steampowered.

I think Gabe is going to need to start using slightly better passwords on accounts he uses to make public announcements on.

[Iason]

great news, means the we'll get to play it soon.

[Buddah]

Holy shiznit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Great news.

[pet622]

wooooooooooooooooooooooT!!!!

[asianrage]

woo hoo!... hopefully no more delays! :)

[khoja88]

holy crap!!!! amazing!!!! how long does it usually take a game to come out after it goes gold?

[MorgaN6]

Half Life 2 comes out September 10th, 2036

hl2fallout.com is jammed, suck it all

[DeSpiSe Me]

That's sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. I cant wait. *DEATH GRIP ON BANK CARD* heh

[orion]

around the corner = 6 months

[Zips]

orion wrote..

around the corner = 6 months

Shut up for the good of humanity, the horse has been beaten to death already.



After it hits the gold status, there's probably a 2-3 week turnaround before it hits store shelves. Hopefully faster

[MikeJ]

HL2 Fallout is down again



But this is great news.

[Nickmw915]

yay now only a couple months until november

[defuser]

Finally! The hl2 has come back! ready to shipped(played the rock's theme song on wwe )

[Impute]

Kicking mother-f*cking ass!



Got to get it ...

[Tuxedo_Penguin]

I really do want to be happy about this, really I do. But the entire HL2 fiasco has been going on so long, and there has been so much bullshit thrown the consumer's way, I don't think anything shy of me spotting the HL2 box at EBgames is going to get me excited at this point.