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

Re:Pardon me...

[gl4ss]

well, they observed that a good way to get publicity is to get your property stolen and then score for some sympathy points as well as delaying the game of course.

me, I never had heard of the whole fu*king game before this so they certainly got what they were looking for(free publicity, like, what's the need for them to publicly announce that the gold got stolen other than free pr).

Guards

[kaellinn18]

perhaps a heavily armed guard is needed?

I can see it now... the little postman walking from door to door flanked by two massive guys with BFGs. :-)