The way I read the reports, they were saying that Valve was worth 1 billion at the time but is worth 2.5 billion now.

I wonder how much is entire EA worth... I think their finances go down a bit every day since some time ago

My back-of-the-envelope calculations using information from Wikipedia and their current share price suggests it's on the order of 4.6 billion.

And going down quickly :D

I hope so. I think it should be worth about 4 bilion less

But so many years!!! It must be one massive crowbar!

Remember that one from HL2? Was there any moment when it just broke? And you hit maaaaaaaaaaaaaany different things with it. Now, do you remember HL2 production time? I can clearly see a connection

More or less stable, actually. But have a look at 2008!

It would be a pretty neat HL3 Collector's Edition gift, receiving a crowbar made by Gabe Newell himself. Maybe the game has already been finished, they just need to make the estimated number of crowbars to be packed with the game.

Heads up: It's under an hour until BMS is released, for those looking forward to playing this as much as I am. (Well, I have been waiting nearly 8 years...) Keep an eye on their site:

http://www.blackmesasource.com/

I don't think there'll be a Steam release yet though, apparently it'll have to be torrented if you want to play it immediately after release.

Fingers crossed my crap pile of a PC can run this!

When a site is overloaded due to heavy traffic, how long does it normally take to...

Longer than you think

I'm currently downloading through Torret Trackers. I don't like to use torrents but right now it's the only fast way to get the mod.

http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?...1#post37663480

Currently at 12%! I hope this works :D

Downloading it too. This should be good :D

A working torrent (official) can now be found here (linked to Facebook to prove it's genuine):

http://www.facebook.com/BlackMesaDev...95876847212424

Be kind and don't forget to seed it when it's done.

I guess I'll wait for the steam version

Yeah, I think I'll wait, too.

I was going to do that until I decided that I didn't want to wait another few months for something I've already waited 8 years for... :S There isn't a lot of info on the Steam version and it may not even be released until they're done finishing Xen.

it's not a finished version?

Quoting myself FTW!

Oh, sorry about that. Seems that today I'm even lazier than usual ^^'

Maybe I'll set it to download tomorrow then, as I'll be out most of the day.

Played trough the first bit until all hell breaks loose. Very awesome so far and they added some extra bits of back story here and there. And you gotta love how everything just breaks down before you even get start the experiment, radiation is off the charts, everything is wrong. Oh who cares, let's go ahead anyway. Haha.

Yeah... I don't reckon I'll get it yet considering it isn't finished... though I am very tempted because Half-Life

Please don't go too spoilery, people. I haven't played the original Half-Life and I don't think I'm the only one.

Gordon wins

Also me.

I'm debating whether I should play it vanilla first or not. On one hand, the rusty graphics and such do nothing for me. On the other hand, they don't really put me off either.

You can safely play BMS first since the storyline is almost the same... It just has a LOT more shine than the original from what I've seen of it.

(82% after 8 hours... But getting there eventually. It's always the way when you torrent stuff.)

My torrent's progress is at 0,0%. Only infinite ammount of time remains till I can play! ^ ^