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Half-Life 2 Delayed Following Code Leak

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sucks-for-the-gamers dept.

jhol writes "CNN is reporting that Half-Life 2 is delayed "by at least four months, that is to April 2004.", due to the code leak. VU Games has already suffered a 29% fall in revenue and an operating loss of $61.36 million this year. A Christmas release of Half-Life 2 would probably have been most welcomed." Update: 10/07 20:38 GMT by S : CNN Money are now reporting there's a newly public leak, allegedly involving a partially playable, Beta pre-release of the game.

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  1. In other news... by jhughes · · Score: 1, Funny

    In other news a new startup company (founded last week) has announced the release of a revolutionary new game: Full Life: The Adventures of Frodan Greeman."

    (I got nuttin)

  2. Well.. by sonoluminescence · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...maybe the Valve version has been delayed.

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  3. I guess now it's... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    First-Quarter Life

  4. Noooooooooo! by Control-Z · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, it's not that bad but I'm modarately disappointed. But some of these fanboys I've been reading posts from on USENET might just kill themselves. Maybe someone should set up a crisis counciling center?

  5. This proves that Eric Raymond is wrong by surstrmming · · Score: 1, Funny

    This proves that Eric Raymond was wrong in the Cathedral and the Bazar when he wrote ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.''. It's just wrong.

    If ESR had been correct, surely the source code leaking out to thousands of open source developers would have increased the speed of development, rather than slowing it down.

  6. time to rewrite the code? by karb · · Score: 1, Funny
    That's a good one. I'll have to remember that next time I'm about to miss a deadline.

    "Yeah, boss, sorry the code is late, but it was leaked : therefore, it must be rewritten."

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  7. Re:Confused by PunchSix · · Score: 3, Funny
    Was the code that was stolen then deleted by the thief?

    That would be awful! The stolen code would be distributed to millions and Valve would have no way of getting that widely distributed code back!!!

  8. This Just in by VEGETA_GT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doom3 to beat Half-Life 2 to market

    Now isn't this a scary messed up thought

    1. Re:This Just in by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nah, Duke Nukem Forever to beat Half-Life 2 to market.

      Now that's scary.

  9. Well no wonder. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They got in through weknesses in OUTLOOK!!!

    they almost deserve to have been hacked if they were running that huge open wound of an infection vector on a developement machiene.

  10. Re:Likely a change to stop "pirating". by godders · · Score: 2, Funny

    When people realize that when one slashdot user speaks, he doesn't speak for all slashdot users.

    April 2004

  11. Re:This is stupid by coolgeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know the Duke Nukem developers are kicking themselves, saying "Why didn't we think of that."

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  12. Re:This is stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because they'd need actual source to leak? :-)