First, the official release date is now May 31st.

Second, according to Gabe Newell it took him 7 hours to play through it "last time". 7 hours after 2 years, give me a break.

Then this: Newell:  "You’re on top of an exploding building, okay, so how do you not all die. It answers a bunch of those questions.  It also raises some questions about what the G-Man’s real role is in the Half-Life universe, so there are some surprises there for people."

I thought those questions were raised in HL and then again in HL2. Perhaps time to answer some questions instead of raising the same ones...

Then of course the continuing silence regarding TF2:

GI: One of the games that I still play is Team Fortress 2…Newell: I’m not going to say anything about Team Fortress

(DJ-D10: I am sure he meant TFC and not TF2 :) )

GI: Awww…that hurts me. (laughs) Newell: It hurts me too. (laughs)

GI: Well can I at least ask if you would ever do a Source enabled Team Fortress Classic? Newell: (pause) I’m not going to say anything about Team Fortress right now.  I love that game. Everybody at Valve loves that game.

You can read the full interview here: http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200603/N06.0324.2249.59492.htm