Half-Life 2 Already Being Illegally Sold in Russia
 

A short blurb on GamesRadar reports Half-Life 2 is for sale, sort of. It seems the 'leaked' Half-Life 2 source has found itself nicely updated and packaged for sale, in Russia. Some work has certainly gone into this production, as 'Hackers have apparently even gone to the length of translating text in the fully playable code into Russian.' However, one would imagine the game's content would be pretty sparse, and stability and polish lacking on such an early build." Another reader points to a page with more information on the bootleg discs, although only the disc art and packaging is mentioned as being translated.

taken from games.slashdot.org

http://www.flamehoe.com/hl/ for some more info

http://www.flamehoe.com/hl/medium/DSC_0001.jpg

What the fuck is Half Life?

Is anything legally sold in Russia other than Vodka?

Thats demo version

Nope can't think of a thing...

what he said.

Half Life 2 isnt out, about 2 months ago someone hacked into Valve who the company who is making it stole all their source code, gfx etc from that time. The you could partialy play some levels and look around but in no way there was a complete game there.. so they are selling this stuff.. the game isnt due out till prob april or summer.. and there iS no demo of this game yet.

here are some screen shots of the real game..

http://www.planethalflife.com/half-life2/screenshots/

remember its not out yet in stores.. and prob like 70% done with that russian crap..

I'll tell ya more man - sometimes even vodka sold there illegally ;)

If you buy the Radeon 9800 XT it comes with a cupon for a free version upon release. Got mine but I dont play games

What he said I said

it will deff be a contender for game of 2004.. so u might want to check it out when it comes out..

How much would you sell it for? :Graucho

hmmm..wonder if CS2 is also coming out?

notice the writing in the bottom left hand corner saying DEMO yet it is actually a stolen alpha version which has been built from the source

the game is going to kickass though :) I can't wait.

ya can't trust russians

Half Life 2 is going to fucking rock. If you haven't already checked out the E3 demo video at fileplanet.com you should go there now if you're interested in FPS games at all.

BTW, infectd, can I have the coupon? Please? :D :winkwink:

Ah man, I decided to stop buying games. I don?t have much time anyhow, I am gonna play DC for now. There is a new game coming out that is ?cool? every week.

they are also selling Counter Strike Condition Zero which is basically cs2

The picture of the HL2 CD for sale is actually from Ukraine, as the price is indicated in GRN (Hrivnya) which is the Ukranian currency

30 grn = about $5.50 USD

Not bad :)

speaking of which, we will be running CS 2 servers at YnotKillZone.com when it comes out. currently we play wed nights games of Desert Combat, you guys should join it its quite fun.

Count me in for sure! Make sure you post any info here..

if you play Desert Combat a mod for the game 1942. we have a weekly gtg on wed nights. around 7pm pacific..

check out http://www.ynotkillzone.com

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It'll be out but not for a while IMO. TFC2 was pose to be out almost 3 years ago, and still isn't anywhere to be found. CS:CZ is just better rendered CS MOD running off the HL1 engine, so it won't be anything special. Plus when HL2 comes out I'm sure Valve will want to make CS 2.0 run on the source engine. Yet then again we all know how fast and on time Valve always is *insert sarcasm here*

update:

According to a recent weblog post, a San Francisco native had his house raided by the FBI last week, and 'lost upwards of 9 machines, and lots of misc equipment besides' in a seizure related to the theft of the Half-Life 2 source code from Valve Software." The scanned-in search warrant posted on the site indicates the FBI were looking for "...any IP addresses related to any of the Valve internal or external networks... Valve passwords and/or usernames... any and all items... related to Valve Software, Half-Life, Half-Life 2", and the Hungry Programmers page mentions that "...several Hungries were raided on January 14th by the FBI and Secret Service, and their computers seized."

Wow :warning

wish valve would hurry up...ive been waiting for this game for way too long....

definitely be there day one.....

doom3 4/1/204 :)

C'mon do you really believe each time into this story with the hacking? It happens almost with each big and famous project. It's obvious that companies just let the code out to warm up a public.

And BTW, this CD is from Ukraine, not from Russia. The price there is not in roubles, but in Ukrainian grivnas.

gotta get the 9700 pro voltmod running...

Yeah,

Got the ticket for it with my 9600XT...

Wonder if steam will crash and burn on the first couple of days...

Prolly, where did you get your 9600XT from? Website? Store? I wanna get one just shopping around first.

local store in MOntreal

http://www.microbytes.com/