The final coding will head to Vivendi in the next few days and Valve announced that mid/late September, the game will be released!
"When it"s done", is the oft borrowed phrase which canny developers use to thwart our polite journalistic enquires about release dates. But now, finally ending months of speculation, Valve"s Doug Lombardi seems to have confirmed that the most eagerly awaited PC title of this, or indeed any other year, is finally done.
According to Lombardi, Half-Life 2 will be passed on to publishers Vivendi "within days" for final mastering and duplication, well within Valve"s target August delivery date - he has added that the game will hit retail mid- to late September.