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So if I haven't gotten back to you on a question, it's because actually shipping the game has gotten in the way of answering questions about it.
This are Gabe's words, I always thought shipping ment getting the game out to the publisher or something like that which means the game has gone gold. But since there is no official news HL2 has gone gold is presume shipping has another meaning...