Well apart from some progress, Half-Life 2 is now over a year late. That is kind of saddening.

As we all can read for ourselves, Vivendi could sit on HL2 for up to six months. Would it be wise for them to do so? No way. We need the game, and Valve and Vivendi need the revenue. To delay the game any further at this point would be futile. Let Valve and Vivendi work out their dispute in court over Steam, and let Half-Life 2 free. They don’t have enough legal mumbo jumbo in their case to warrant a delay of one of the most-anticipated games of all time.