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Source Released With PS2 Game

Kevin 'Zaph' Burfitt has a great weblog with insightful commentary on game development issues and other topics of interest - so be sure to keep you visit regularly..
In the latest entry in his weblog, Zaph writes about a Playstation2 game rental that had something extra laying around...

"Yesterday one of the guys I work with discovered that a recently released PlayStation2 game has a complete *annotated* source listing on the DVD, sitting as a text file for everyone to see (if they put the DVD into a PC).
This is incredible, the source lists both the games code plus the library code in a format that experienced programmers could easily take and learn from. A kind of involuntary Open Source :-)"

It's possibly the biggest blunder a developer could do on a game release, and yet no one spotted it! Head on over to Zaphs weblog to read the rest of his commentary!