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Offline Gloriano

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Half-life2 source leaked
Gabe Newell confirms that the Valve network was hacked.

Since late yesterday, reports have spread that the source code for Half-Life 2 was leaked and was illicitly posted on the Web. Valve's Gabe Newell has today confirmed in a post on the Half-Life2.net forum that the file that is circulating is indeed the Half-Life 2 source code and said that it was stolen from Valve's network two weeks ago.







Newell summed up the importance of these events with "Well, this sucks," saying that "this has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve." He explained that someone gained access to his e-mail and installed keystroke recorders on several Valve computers as a means of stealing passwords. Valve and its Steam service have been the targets of several denial-of-service attacks over the past year, and he said it was unclear if these were related to the recent attacks.

Valve is turning to the gaming community in asking for any information that might lead to those responsible for the denial-of-service attacks or the network infiltration. Newell asked that any possible leads be sent to [email protected] .

Newell didn't comment on whether these events would impact Half-Life 2's release schedule, which was recently pushed back from September 30 to late this year


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Offline Styxx

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Yeah, I had heard of it. Bad for them, I guess, but there's some really happy coders out there messing with the code, I guess. :p
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Offline Turnsky

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well.. this may be a good thing if you think about it.. means that mods /might/ be made sooner, thus improving the long-term replayability of the game.. :nod:
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Offline Hippo

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same thing happened with Halo PC...
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Offline karajorma

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Personally I can't see this hurting them much. Sure you can put together your own version of Half-life 2 with it but without any maps made for you what can you do?
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Offline Nico

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Well, for them, it is bad. Even if their code can't be used directly, you can guess the people from, say, ID software, or anybody else, will get a deep look at it and copy the stuff that they like.
for gamers, well, that means everybody will have to work harder to be the best, now, so we might get better games :p
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ow that sucks.
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Offline Setekh

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Oooh... ouch. Hope that doesn't discourage them too much.
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Oh, MAN that blows!!
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Offline Ashrak

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rofl well they did it nice move @ hackers :p
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Offline Bobboau

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I bet this was actualy an intentional leak, given how much of HL's sucsess was based on the mods
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Offline Nico

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mmh, you're the kind to see conspiracies everywhere, heh? :p
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Offline Ashrak

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i agree with bob actually
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Offline Bobboau

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you're one of them, aren't you...
:mad: AREN"T YOU!?! :mad:
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Offline Gloriano

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those peoples that do this kind things are stupid
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Offline karajorma

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Could you imagine if valve said that they wouldn't release HL2 until they had the names of those involved?
 They would be turned in by the hacker community in a heart beat :D
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Offline Nico

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i agree with bob actually


That's quite a gamble to release the whole source before the game is even released, don't you think? when the concurrence hasn't released their games themselves? :p

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Offline Bobboau

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AHH, the black helicopters are comeing for me!!!!
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Offline 01010

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I heard that this was a hoax and that it was nothing more than the Half-Life SDK with a few lines added and a few re-written to make it look new.

That's what I heard. Not 100% on that.
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Offline magatsu1

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I thought the code had already been offically released ?
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