Six months after the game missed its September 30 date, there is still no firm release date for Half-Life 2. We round up the latest statements from Valve and Vivendi and weigh in on why nobody should pencil in a date just yet.
Valve has said very little since the source code leak last October. Vivendi's last financial report still lists the game for this year, which is about all anyone has on the record.
Two big PC releases landed today. Crytek's Far Cry is out from Ubisoft, and Valve finally shipped Counter-Strike: Condition Zero after more than two years and three different developers.
Far Cry is the one to watch if you just bought a new video card. The jungle levels look incredible and the draw distance is something else. Condition Zero comes with the Deleted Scenes single player campaign and an updated multiplayer game with bots.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is in stores as of this morning. The regular edition comes on six CDs, and there is also a DVD special edition with a Logitech headset in the box if you want to pay a little extra for voice chat.
The big addition over UT2003 is Onslaught, the new vehicle mode where teams link up power nodes across a big outdoor map. Assault is back from the original game, and all the UT2003 maps come along for the ride.
