Half-Life2 11/16 発売？

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Half-Life 2 Gold [October 18, 2004, 2:19 pm EDT] - Viewing Comments
Vivendi Universal Games sends along the eagerly anticipated press release that Half-Life 2 has gone gold, and is scheduled to ship world-wide on November 16, 2004. Here's an excerpt:
LOS ANGELES (October 18, 2004) – Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) today announced that Half-Life® 2, the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed PC titles in gaming history,
will ship to retail outlets around the world in November.
The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned
retail street date of November 16, 2004. The countdown to the highly anticipated retail street date has begun around
the world, as VU Games completes plans to ship localized versions of Half-Life 2 simultaneously in English, French, Spanish, Italian,
German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai and Japanese.

“Half-Life 2 has surpassed our expectations in every sense – its high-quality graphics, ground-breaking physics and immersive
first-person shooter gameplay set a new standard for PC action games,” said Bruce Hack, CEO of VU Games.
“Half-Life 2 will go down as one of the best-selling PC titles, and we are thrilled to deliver this ground-breaking title to the worldwide gaming community this fall.”

くそ！もう騙されないぞ！とかつい思ってしまうわけですが今回はVivendiにも書いてある。
流石に今度ばかりは正解…かな？
そういえば昔グラボと一緒にチケットが付いてきた奴があったような。
アレはまだ有効なのだろうか。