The road to the release of the highly anticipated Half-Life 2 game hit another pothole yesterday when the forum account of Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve, was hacked.
An impostor raised the hopes of gamers across the planet by falsely announcing that the game had gone Gold.
When a game goes Gold, it means that the game content, code and packaging are completed and the product is ready to be sent for manufacturing.
The administrator of hl2fallout.com, where the supposed announcement was made issued this statement:
After a close scrutiny of Gabe Newell’s account history on the forums, we've come to the conclusion that the gold post is a fake. While we can't be 100% certain at this stage, all indicators point towards someone hacking the forum account. That said, all Gabe's previous posts on these forums are quite legitimate.
We apologize for the confusion and will be investigating further. Theoretically, an IPB forum account should be very difficult to hack. Well, that was the theory at least. We'll keep you updated.
false.
Do you really think the gold announcement will be made with a 4 word forum post? OMFG will count as four words by itself! :-]
This is only the latest in a series of problems that have beset the development of the game:
· In late 2003 the source code for the game was stolen from Valve's servers and leaked onto the Internet by hackers who gained access.
· Earlier this month, the full script to the game was included in a file sent out with Counter-Strike: Source beta.
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