In de Oekraine lopen veel ongeduldige gamers rond, want op de zwarte markt kun je zonder veel problemen Half-Life 2 en Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, inclusief verpakking, kopen. Het gaat hier om de gelekte content die afgelopen herfst al op het Internet verscheen en nu als volledig produkt wordt aangeboden. In ander Half-Life 2 nieuws heeft Rick Ellis van Valve laten weten dat de System Development Kit binnenkort released zal worden. Hoe snel binnenkort bij Valve is, is niet bekend, maar er lijkt schot in de zaak te komen.BYHL: The Hammer editor is quite robust, but we can't really imagine making completed maps without the constant in-engine checking to make sure everything looks OK (lights, etc) works ok (doors, lifts, etc) or plays OK. Is the new Hammer editor going to come with some sort of reduced source engine we can use, or are we just going to have to use our imaginations until the HL2 release?

RE: In the initial release you won't have an engine to view your levels with, however since Hammer is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get -spiffae), you can visualize your levels that way. At some point in the future, we'll release a build of the engine that you can use to check out the physics and interactions of your level.Tevens kom je in dit zeer korte interview met Ellis ietsje pietsje meer over de SDK en Valve te weten.