>Many of the games I see
>have announced that they have
>gone gold... and hence their
>release date is postponed. so
>what actually is the significance
>of going gold?
When a game reach that state it means it`s finished and the master cd to start the copying are done and shiped to be duplicated. Sometimes for marketing purposes the distribution is placed on hold, or the duplication itself was defective, so they have to duplicate some more, and that takes time.
Hih