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 | Half-Life 2 - "Chosen 9" release                                |
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 | Company: Valve Corporation ( http://www.valvesoftware.com )     |
 | File size: 100 x 15MB                                           |
 | Release: November 2003                                          |
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 | Quote from http://www.planethalflife.com/ :                     |
 | "There were a ton of rumors the past couple days about the      |
 | existence of a leaked, playable Half-Life 2 beta, but           |
 | thankfully those stories have been confirmed to be completely   |
 | false."                                                         |
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 | Well, I hope nobody believed this rumor. Who would actually be  |
 | good enough to get the source, but forget the game ?            |
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 | To myg0t: this is too big for you to take credit :P             |
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 | - Anonymous leaker                                              |
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 | Gordon Freeman is back! Along with scientist Eli Vance and his  |
 | daughter Alyx, your mission is to save the world from total     |
 | alien domination. See, that little incident in Black Mesa was   |
 | just the beginning: now those pesky Xen invaders and a new      |
 | threat called the Combine have spread across the whole Earth,   |
 | causing massive amounts of death and destruction. It’s up to    |
 | you to set things right.                                        |
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 | +   Scientist-with-a-crowbar Gordon Freeman joins a ragtag      |
 |     human resistance fighting extradimensional invaders for the |
 |     survival of a conquered Earth                               |
 | +   Unnervingly realistic graphics the likes of which have not  |
 |     been witnessed outside of a motion picture or pre-rendered  |
 |     cut scene                                                   |
 | +   Realistic physics: objects have varied and appropriate      |
 |     mass, density, physical properties                          |
 | +   Ingenious artificial intelligence: enemies will adapt,      |
 |     plan, improvise, and respond                                |
 | +   Hordes of new aliens and other enemies, plethora of guns    |
 |     and other weapons                                           |
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 | Minimum system requirements:                                    |
 | +   Windows98/2000/Me/XP                                        |
 | +   700 MHz CPU                                                 |
 | +   128 MB RAM                                                  |
 | +   DX6 compatible video card                                   |
 | +   ~3 GB free hdd space                                        |
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 | Recommended system requirements:                                |
 | +   Windows98/2000/Me/XP                                        |
 | +   2 GHz CPU                                                   |
 | +   256 MB RAM                                                  |
 | +   DX9 compatible video card                                   |
 | +   ~4 GB free hdd space                                        |
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 | Have fun playing, but buy the game, cause this wasnt intended   |
 | to be leaked! After the source leak, there was no reason for    |
 | keeping the beta private.                                       |
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 | - Anonymous leaker                                              |
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