Console huh? Okay so this has nothing to do with Console's or Conspiracies but according to our crumpet eating pals over at the BBC Half-Life 2, the sequal to one of the best video games of all times. is set to go in Mid-November.

I think the really interesting part is that Valve has been letting members of its online Steam community get hold of encrypted copies of Half-Life 2 over the internet. It means thousands of people already have the game on their hard drives, but it is locked. When officially launched, Valve will release the codes to access the encrypted files and start playing immediately.

So is this the way all games are headed? And soon with the penetration of broadband and Internet enabled consoles will we be buying our console games like this as well? What do you think?