Hmmm, my steam has worked fine for the last few days, it took it a while to authenticate the cd key because steam servers were busy but its been fine since.
Try breifly turning off your firewall untill steam has connected then turn it back on when you're in. Always worked for me.
A cool(ish) thing i did, was manipulate a flammble barrel, launch it intro the air, pull out usp, shoot it till it sets alight and it exploded just before it hit the ground and killed a pack of combines (it was on one of the buggy levels in a warehouse). Im currently on nova prospekt.
Ok... either you have been sleeping under a rock on mars or ...well you might have other reasons but the 16th IS the release date: we have preloaded half life 2, we can buy half life 2, half life 2 has gone gold over a month ago, half life 2 finished shipping 5 days ago and finnally it is set to...
all the lil 12 year olds who, cant get half life 2 running because they tried to warez, it will come and flame about valve or steam, but unfortunatly the only people listening, will be other flamers because anyone who did everything properly, will be able to play it and will not go in the forums...
Im gunna chuck bricks through alyx's window and see if she sets her dog on me, that would be cool. Dont foget manipulating circular saws and terrorising the gman.