# Half Life 2 to go gold on Monday

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**Created:** [August 30, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-2-to-go-gold-on-monday/62624 "2004-08-30T02:00:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![love\_police](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@love\_police](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/love_police)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-2-to-go-gold-on-monday/62624/1 "2004-08-30T02:00:57Z")

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well its monday here though i think its over there. 😛

[http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/08/27/news\_6106035.html](http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/08/27/news_6106035.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-2-to-go-gold-on-monday/62624/2 "2004-08-30T02:25:25Z")

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You didn’t read the article did you? 🙂

It was a hoax, some smart guy signed into Gabe Newell’s account using the password “gaben” and posted that.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-2-to-go-gold-on-monday/62624/3 "2004-08-30T02:56:40Z")

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😃

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-2-to-go-gold-on-monday/62624/4 "2004-08-30T04:25:42Z")

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Gaben? My god thats genius! It makes me wonder how the original source files could have been nabbed with encryption like that! …Does anyone know if Gabe happens to bank online?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/half-life-2-to-go-gold-on-monday/62624/5 "2004-08-30T10:08:24Z")

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> [@ditchhopper](#):
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> Gaben? My god thats genius! It makes me wonder how the original source files could have been nabbed with encryption like that! …Does anyone know if Gabe happens to bank online?

LOL 😛