After last years chaos I wouldn't trust Gabe Newell to wipe my ass, much less give a release date. "Yeah, it'll be in stores tomorrow!" Anyone remember? "Oh, we got hacked because I'm a big phat fraud, so we have to wait another year to release it!" Blah, maybe I'm just grumpy because it's late but whatever, whenever HL2 gets out certainly won't be too soon in my eyes.

....once the release candidate is loose on bit torrent who cares how long they delay the actual release of it? :lol:

This is just another step in the chain to getting the game gold, at least it's out of Valve's hands for a bit and now we get to get pissed at Vivendi for the delay. ;)