Citing the theft (copying) of source code, Valve/Vivendi Universal has announced that Half Life 2 will be delayed another four months, to April ’04.

Why some miscreant copying their code delays them is left as an exercise to the reader, but smart money’s on “it doesn’t; they’re just nowhere near ready, and are gradually approaching Daikatana territory, and the code theft is good cover.” Still, the advance screen shots and gameplay demos have been awful damn impressive.