"Half-Life 2" wasn't the only game delayed by the source-code theft. Valve had licensed out the game's "Source" graphics engine to developer Troika, which was hard at work building "Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines," a PC role-playing game. That game, initially set to be released this year, had to be delayed to implement the same security fixes needed on HL2. It now has a target release date of Spring 2005, said Trokia co-founder Jason Anderson.

On a related note, Activision is saying that a date we were throwing around for Troika's Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, (spring 2005) is incorrect, but did not say whether or not the game has been delayed or if it has a new date -- the game had been pegged by most retailers as coming out in June 2004, while Activision's official site simply states 2004.