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Valve Submits Half-Life 2 Candidate

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“The submission of a release candidate means that Valve has finished the creative work on the title, and it now only remains for Vivendi Universal’s QA department to approve the title – or bounce it back for some quick fixes if show-stopping bugs are found.

As such, a release date for the title should be announced shortly – with Valve marketing director Doug Lombardi confirming last night that “we don’t have a release date from VU at this time, but we’re hoping they will pull out a release date soon.””

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