Half-Life 3 Logo Appears on Mystery Website

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Half-Life 3 Logo Appears on Mystery Website


The Half-Life 3 logo has turned up on a mysterious new website! What could it mean?

Point yourself at half-life3.com [http://black-aperture.com/]; click it and you're transported to the Orange Box website. Interesting, and all very legitimate-looking, too. But is it real?

The obvious answer is "probably not," but hey, we've got time to kill. A Valve employee's t-shirt [http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=black-aperture.com] in early December, with the lambda and the "3" having swapped spots.

At the same time, there seems to be an awful lot of Half-Life 3 "stuff" popping up in recent weeks. There's the t-shirt, and then came reports of the Half-Life 3 insisted [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/12/12/valve-vga-vid-appears-to-offer-hl3-clues/] there was no "alternate reality game" or anything else untoward going on, but now we have this. Can it all really be a coincidence?

Of course it can, and it almost certainly is. Or is it? What's this "Status: Mark 7" business, anyway? And what about "FW26HL3719?" I'm all a-tingle with excitement!

via: Gameranx [http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/4163/article/possible-half-life-3-website-breaks-hearts/]


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ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Could it be? Could it really be? Could we really be getting Half Life 3/Episode 3? Finally, after all this time.

Maybe, maybe not.

Must... remain... calm...



Please don't let this be a hoax. Oh god please don't let this be a hoax.
 

Zhukov

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Here we go again.

I will continue to maintain a facade of dismissive indifference until it's on my hard drive, at which point I will probably pass out.
 

Noble_Lance

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Who is anyone here fooling, the Half-Life Series has become the Duke Nukem and Beyond Good and Evil sequels of the Gaming world.
 

RA92

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Guys, I already told you <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.335204-How-I-breached-into-Valves-office-and-brought-you-news-of-Half-Life-3>the truth. Don't let yourself be trolled.
 

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Irridium said:
ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Could it be? Could it really be? Could we really be getting Half Life 3/Episode 3? Finally, after all this time.

Maybe, maybe not.

Must... remain... calm...



Please don't let this be a hoax. Oh god please don't let this be a hoax.
Roll that turtle-neck back up (both of them) and cool your jets Starsky, it almost certainly is I'm afraid.

OT: This whole thing is too sporadic for Valve, and unimaginative. A fucking T-Shirt with a HL3 logo, and a website? If the other stuff is the beginnings of an ARG, these two certainly aren't part of it.
 

ToastiestZombie

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Noble_Lance said:
Who is anyone here fooling, the Half-Life Series has become the Duke Nukem and Beyond Good and Evil sequels of the Gaming world.
Take out Duke Nukem Forever from that message, because that came out, and was terrible.

OT: If this is true, I will probably faint from excitement, if it's not I will just have to go on, being depressed that I won't be able to find out what happens after that scene with poor old eli, yeh that scene.
 

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Just in case this isn't a hoax :
There is an Aperture logo hidden inside the HL³ logo.
Ramp up the contrast on the image to see it.
(http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/184/8953/original.jpg)
 

ToastiestZombie

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Minz said:
Just in case this isn't a hoax :
There is an Aperture logo hidden inside the HL³ logo.


Ramp up the contrast on the image to see it.
(http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/184/8953/original.jpg)
Hmmmm, didn't notice that. That makes it a tiny bit more believable, but I'm still not believing it.
 

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Bought HL series again on steam (3rd copy I own now? D:) -just- in case it is released and I'm not at home, must refresh my memory, it's been a loooong time...


EDIT: the 75% off half-life complete pack is over on steam, but its still on sale for 50% off at about ~$20
 

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ToastiestZombie said:
Minz said:
Just in case this isn't a hoax :
There is an Aperture logo hidden inside the HL³ logo.


Ramp up the contrast on the image to see it.
(http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/184/8953/original.jpg)
Hmmmm, didn't notice that. That makes it a tiny bit more believable, but I'm still not believing it.
And the website is black-aperture.com? Black Mesa + Aperture Science methinks.
 

Krion_Vark

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CLICK the logo on that site I dare you.
You do it?
Okay. Then you'll know it links to a site the The Orange Box.
 
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Minz said:
Just in case this isn't a hoax :
There is an Aperture logo hidden inside the HL³ logo.
Ramp up the contrast on the image to see it.
(http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/184/8953/original.jpg)
Gah, beat me to it. It looks like this HL is going to cross over with Portal, which was already kinda confirmed... Provided the site is real of course.

On the other hand, the title "Black Aperture" seems a bit too much of an obvious cross between Black Mesa and Aperture for my liking, so I'm a bit doubtful about the legitimacy based on that.
 

ToastiestZombie

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anANGRYkangaroo said:
ToastiestZombie said:
Minz said:
Just in case this isn't a hoax :
There is an Aperture logo hidden inside the HL³ logo.


Ramp up the contrast on the image to see it.
(http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/184/8953/original.jpg)
Hmmmm, didn't notice that. That makes it a tiny bit more believable, but I'm still not believing it.
And the website is black-aperture.com? Black Mesa + Aperture Science methinks.
Thank you Captiain Obvious! You are the best hero around! Nah seriously, that is rather badly hidden and not really that clever. Makes me think it's more like a hoax since the website is so clear and discrete about it, clear and discrete reveals is not a thing Valve does.
 

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content="2012"

After about 15 minutes of whois & nmap this is the only thing that hasn't been mentioned so far...a meta tag.

If this turns out not to be a troll, then I might not buy the game just on principle.
 

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Irridium said:
ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Could it be? Could it really be? Could we really be getting Half Life 3/Episode 3? Finally, after all this time.

Maybe, maybe not.

Must... remain... calm...



Please don't let this be a hoax. Oh god please don't let this be a hoax.
Ha ha, that's what I said...

Also, nice Spongebob pic, nothing makes a thread win like Spongebob.