The day is coming

Doom3 looks like it might just make an August 3rd release date. Not only did two retailers get that date on the same day (probably from Activision), but Quakecon has been keeping too quiet for nothing to be going on. They've (as of now) scheduled absolutely no tournaments, which is absolutely unheard of since they started running big-money competitions. If anyone has an "in" with id, it's the Quakecon staff - so expect a surprise Doom3 tournament.

But that's not even important. The real day will be for Half-Life2. Gotta love stuff like this:

Go to this address: http://www.half-life2.com/secret/pwn3d/
Login: valve
password: 437N452
View source. Make sure you scroll all the way down.

Meanwhile, look at the Valve studio dry-erase board here. In order to make such a complex teaser, look at what's been cut from the game recently (we can only pray for a Director's Cut release later on).
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