Gates of Troy Gold Master Stolen, Delayed

Ant writes "According to the story on Blue's News and Slitherine Software's related official statement, the gold master for Gates of Troy, their upcoming stand-alone PC strategy title, has been purloined, via a physical robbery of a UK Post Office carrier, rather than a computer break-in." It may well have just been "a piece of extreme bad luck", but kudos to Slitherine for trying to make the most of this incident, as they slather: "This attack comes hot on the heels of the theft of the Half Life 2 source code and shows how vulnerable games companies can be", and also fret: "It has been a wake up call to us and Slitherine will be reviewing its procedures in future to ensure the same type of thing cannot happen again." - perhaps a heavily armed guard is needed?

Comments

Wow...

[Txiasaeia]

First time I ever heard of a warez group not only releasing a game before it's in stores, but releasing a game that WON'T be released in stores :)

hot on the heels?

[pizza_milkshake]

This attack comes hot on the heels of the theft of the Half Life 2 source code

The HL2 source code being stole happened last October, over 8 months ago. here's a dated money.cnn.com article

if i got laid last October and then laid today, i wouldn't necessarily say this time was 'hot on the heels' of the last time.

oh wait, since i read slashdot, maybe i would...

Re:Quaint

[CDLewis]

Nobody ever reported open source code stolen.

Didn't SCO?

From the game's offical site:

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Gates of Troy is only available through the Slitherine Online shop - you will not see it at your local store.

But you WILL see it on Kazaa, eMule, and at Suprnova.