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Nov 13, 2008
Valve Tried to Trick Half Life 2 Hacker Into Fake Job Interview N4G
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Valve Tried to Trick Half Life 2 Hacker Into Fake Job Interview Wired Write: After the secret source code for its then-unreleased shooter Half Life 2 showed up on file sharing services in 2003, game-maker Valve Software cooked up an elaborate ruse with the FBI targeting the German hacker suspected in the leak, even setting up a fake job interview in an effort to lure him to the United States for arrest.

The gambit ultimately failed, and Axel "Ago" Gembe remained safely in Germany. He was indicted last month in Los Angeles on new charges of creating the Agobot malware, and sharing it with a crew of U.S. hackers who used it to stage denial-of-service attacks in 2003.

In September 2003, the source code for the much-anticipated Half Life 2 game turned up online, and Valve's managing director, Gabe Newell, revealed that the company's network had been breached. In a post to the company's web forum, Newell asked for gamer's assistance in finding the hackers responsible.
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Oct 15, 2008
Valve may announce Half-Life 2 Episode 3 later this year. N4G
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Valve may announce Half-Life 2 Episode 3 later this year. Marketing director Doug Lombardi says announcement may arrive later this year, though game is still more than a year off.

Although an announcement may be impending, a release date remains farther away on the horizon. "The next time you play as Gordon will be longer than the distance between [Half-Life 2] to [Episode 1], and [Episode 1] to [Episode 2]," cryptically noted Lombardi. Half-Life 2 was released for the PC in November 2004, with Episode 1 following in June 2006 and Episode 2 debuting alongside The Orange Box in October 2007. Doing the math, that would put Episode 3's release date as far off as 2010.
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Sep 10, 2008
Gordon Freeman Spotted in CERN Test Chamber N4G
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Gordon Freeman Spotted in CERN Test Chamber "Ever watch the same disaster movie twice and find yourself trying to warn off the actors?"
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Sep 9, 2008
Half-Life 2 SourceForts 1.9.4 Released N4G
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Half-Life 2 SourceForts 1.9.4 Released This mod from the Source Forts Team blends Deathmatch and Capture the Flag and adds other custom changes to the mix.
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Aug 4, 2008
Jailbreak: Source Official Map Pack and New Screens N4G
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Jailbreak: Source Official Map Pack and New Screens Jailbreak is a Half-Life 2 modification similar to Team Deathmatch for Half-Life 2, but with a difference: two teams, two jails. When you kill a member of the opposite team, they respawn, locked up inside your jail. When a member of your team is killed, they respawn inside the enemy jail. Your objective is to imprison every member of the enemy team. The twist is that you can break out members of your own team, by fighting your way to the enemy jail and opening the doors. The game goes back and forth until one team is entirely locked up, the losers executed (in a variety of customised ways), then the next round begins.
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May 30, 2008
Valve Announces Steam Cloud - Indefinite Online Save Game, Replay Video, Kill-cam Storage, and other features N4G
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Valve Announces Steam Cloud - Indefinite Online Save Game, Replay Video, Kill-cam Storage, and other features Valve's been quite busy getting ready to roll out some impressive updates to their games and Steam in general:

"Valve today announced Steam Cloud, a free Steam system that will retain users' saved games and configuration files indefinitely.

Half-Life and Half-Life 2 will be the first games to support the service....

The company is also working on several new Steam systems, including a driver auto-updater and calendar functionality.

Another feature in the works is a system-requirement checker. The program will analyze your hardware and compare it to multiple games, estimating your performance and recommending upgrades.

Valve is also considering storing replay videos and kill-cam screens from games such as Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source. "
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Jan 18, 2008
Gordon Freeman: Strongest personality in gaming
PC News | Half-Life 2
18th Jan, 2008 [Warning: Like our Portal article from December, this piece features some pretty heady discourse, and also benefits from a visit from Mr. Narrative Theory. If that stuff makes you run screaming, then feel free to run screaming. Also, if you haven't completed Half-Life 2, leave now. This contains some inhuman spoilers.] Half-Life 2 is widely and rightly regarded as a modern classic. In terms of both gameplay and artistry there have been few, if any, games in the FPS genre which ...
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Dec 31, 2007
The Orange Box and 19 Games Available for $75 on Steam N4G
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - The Orange Box and 19 Games Available for $75 on Steam As if The Orange Box weren't already the best value in gaming, those who have yet to make the $50 plunge can get an even better deal through Valve's Steam service. For a mere $75 gamers can purchase Orange Box and 19 additional titles.

If you already have The Orange Box then you can still get some more Half-Life goodness by downloading the game's main tune, "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coultan at Amazon.com. The entire album is discounted by about $2, available at Amazon for $7.99.
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Dec 25, 2007
HL2 mod Black Mesa's Media Release 11 N4G
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - HL2 mod Black Mesa's Media Release 11 To celebrate Christmas, the Black Mesa team released a new batch of media for the upcoming Half-Life re-creation mod Black Mesa. Included within are a website re-vamp, new high-resolution screenshots, newly revealed areas, new weaponry, and the launch of a devblog.
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Dec 20, 2007
Dear criminals...
PC News | Half-Life 2
Dec 20, 2007 If you park on the streets of a major city like San Francisco, you know there's the risk that a starry-eyed young hooligan with the bold dream of stealing your stereo will smash in your window. GamesRadar US editor Tyler Wilde is well aware of this risk - his car has been broken into three times in the past year. What he didn't know is that not just his stereo is at risk. As an avid gamer and an angry citizen, he felt it was time to send a message to the window/ocarina smashing ...
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