Half-Life 2: Episode Two has slipped until Q1 2007

Half-Life 2: Episode Two and its three-game entourage - on three platforms - has slipped until Q1 2007. February, we're told. But if you ever really expected to play it this year you were probably kidding yourself anyway. Fortunately it's sounding really rather good - a technological improvement thanks to the license new areas have afford Valve to work on new art assets, and one with lots of new enemies and vehicles among other things. Speaking to Eurogamer at Leipzig's Game Convention, Valve's Doug Lombardi spoke candidly on release date, price, the background to the re-emergence of Team Fortress 2, and how - if things had been different - the Portal gun might even have wound up in Half-Life 2 in the first place.

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