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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. Other news: beta leaked, apparently... by Tyreth · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's a buzz at the moment on irc.quakenet.org #hl2-source and other places about the beta being leaked.

    I would submit it as a story, but someone else probably has, and I've never had a story accepted yet :)

    The NFO was on nforce.nl for a short time, but has since been removed. The leak has been confirmed here, and a few claim to have it (but they could be lying).

    I've also seen a screenshot of the folders with all the map files in it, and the names look very much like what one would expect the long gameplay demo to be made from.

    Not good news for valve :( I am disappointed that the game had to be delayed - and for all of you who have taken the source or download the beta, I hope you remember your duty to purchase the game when it does come out.

  2. hello, outlook by Stinking+Pig · · Score: 5, Informative

    See the story at The Register. They link to Valve's forum, where the general manager details how the code was leaked: in short, his own account information was stolen via Outlook, then several other employees were hit with a Outlook preview-pane virus that installed a keylogger.

    Of course, this is no reason to think that Outlook isn't a perfectly good solution for email. Outlook is great. There's no reason to consider any alternatives. No matter how much money you lose to Outlook virii, simply look at the silly dancing monkey!

    --
    "Nothing was broken, and it's been fixed." -- Jon Carroll
  3. Delay not confirmed by bios10h · · Score: 5, Informative

    Vivendi Universal Says Delay Not Confirmed
    Tuesday, October 7, 2003
    According to a news article posted today on a UK press release, there is a Half-Life 2 delay. We already know that Valve does is not mentioning a delay.

    We received an email from Mike Thompson who says he works for Vivendi Universal and writes:

    quote: "delay is not confirmed..."

    Here we go around and around... again...

    From Half-Life Source Dot Com