Technically, you can have Half-life 2 on your hard drive starting today. Valve has announced that the upcoming tite will be steadily streamed to customers over the next few days. The streamed files will sit on your computer, encrypted, until you enter the registration key. Then all hell will break loose. Especially at the retail stores, where they must be quaking in their boots about this latest distribution method. Maybe if we got rid of this whole middleman thing in the game industry, the titles would be cheaper…Nah.
