Here's some bad news relating to the topic. *Real* bad news...
Vivendi's "Half Life II" game delayed by code theft
PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The theft of part of its source code has delayed until April 2004 the launch of "Half Life II", the hotly anticipated alien-hunting game of Vivendi Universal Games, a company official said...
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/031007/tech_...i_games_2.html