After Valve head Gabe Newell posted on the HL2Fallout.com forums stating that their latest opus would be going gold on Monday, a lot of gamers started experiencing something akin to an amphetamine high until some spoilsport realised that the post was fake. Said gamers then came down fast and spent the rest of the evening pouring glasses of ice-cold water down their trousers.

The prankster responsible for this merry jape reportedly hacked into Gabe Newell’s forum account, although in using the word ‘hacked’ I am being extremely generous. You want to know how this l33t h4×0r pulled off his daring scheme, hm? He GUESSED, correctly, that Gabe Newell’s password was ‘gaben.’ Watch out, the Pentagon! There’s a new subversive genius loose!