Half-Life 3 Logo Appears on Mystery Website - Polidicks

"Point yourself at black-aperture.com and you'll see something mighty interesting: a very professional-looking Half-Life 3 logo, complete with Steam, Valve and Source tags and even all the proper copyright notifications in fine print. Mouse over the logo and you'll notice it links to half-life3.com; click it and you're transported to the Orange Box website. Interesting, and all very legitimate-looking, too. But is it real?" [url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114889-Half-Life-3-Logo-Appears-on-Mystery-Website[/url] I want to believe.

It's time....

I want to believe.

Prove it's owned by Valve, if not, it's another fanshit site

I don't want to believe.

I have high hopes, but considering the WHOIS lookup, who knows.

When you click the logo it links to Half-life3.com which links to the half-life 2 site. Hmm.

Bullshit.

it beGINS

Official valve troll.

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[quote]The obvious answer is "probably not," but hey, we've got time to kill. A whois of black-aperture.com reveals that the registration is David Hassen, who has no apparently connection to Valve and is thus presumed to be just some guy who doesn't mind spending a few bucks to troll a significant portion of the internet.[/quote] Do you guys not read?

Valve's ultimate christmas present

Trolls gonna troll.

whois lookup for the domain [quote]BLACK-APERTURE.COM WHOIS Updated: 10 hours ago Registrant: Hassen, David ATTN BLACK-APERTURE.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA. US 18222 Domain Name: BLACK-APERTURE.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Hassen, David @networksolutionsprivateregistration.com ATTN BLACK-APERTURE.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA 18222 US 570-708-8780 Record expires on 19-Dec-2012. Record created on 19-Dec-2011. Database last updated on 21-Dec-2011 21:34:06 EST. Domain servers in listed order: NS65.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS66.DOMAINCONTROL.COM This listing is a Network Solutions Private Registration. Mail correspondence to this address must be sent via USPS Express Mail(TM) or USPS Certified Mail(R); all other mail will not be processed. Be sure to include the registrant's domain name in the address. Information Updated: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:49:19 UTC[/quote] probably fake

Hasn't this been proved fake over and over again, that things been there for at least a week.

I whois'd the Black-Aperture site. It has the same registrar as the half-life 2 site, most of the information is hidden though. THIS IS INTERESTING AND MAKES ME CREAM.

Hassen, David ATTN BLACK-APERTURE.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA. US 18222 Domain Name: BLACK-APERTURE.COM I don't think so Also notice how when you write half-life3.com in the browser it takes you to the orange box page

[QUOTE=Smasher 006;33843580]Hasn't this been proved fake over and over again, that things been there for at least a week.[/QUOTE] Saw an article about this on Digg yesterday, and it was mentioned in the comments that the article they linked to even mentioned it was fake.

[url]http://who.is/whois/black-aperture.com/[/url] Doesn't look like it's owned by Valve

[QUOTE=GoDL1Kelol;33843592]Hassen, David ATTN BLACK-APERTURE.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA. US 18222 Domain Name: BLACK-APERTURE.COM I don't think so Also notice how when you write half-life3.com in the browser it takes you to the orange box page[/QUOTE] Yeah, when you whois the half-life3 site it has been registered since 1999. I don't know.

Shit, I'm late

Pretty sure this is fake. This is more interesting: [url]http://lambdageneration.com/posts/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas/[/url]

I just WHOIS'd half-life3.com [QUOTE]Registrant: Valve Corporation ATTN HALF-LIFE3.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA 18222 US Domain Name: HALF-LIFE3.COM Administrative Contact : Valve Corporation [EMAIL="xc4qy5mp3b6@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com"]xc4qy5mp3b6@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com[/EMAIL] ATTN HALF-LIFE3.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA 18222 US Phone: 570-708-8780 Technical Contact : Valve Corporation [EMAIL="xc4qy5mp3b6@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com"]xc4qy5mp3b6@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com[/EMAIL] ATTN HALF-LIFE3.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA 18222 US Phone: 570-708-8780[/QUOTE] ohgodohgodohgod

[QUOTE=Fatman55;33843617]I just WHOIS'd half-life3.com ohgodohgodohgod[/QUOTE] We've know this for years? It's likely Valve acquired it so that nobody else would.

I hope we get an ARG with HL3, the Portal 2 one was so fun.

If it was Valve's site wouldn't the steam icon link to steam rather than the same place, like every other valve site?

While it is probably fake, is it just me or has there been an increase in HL3 mentions/rumours/hints in the last 2-3 months?

[QUOTE=LarparNar;33843640]We've know this for years? It's likely Valve acquired it so that nobody else would.[/QUOTE] It's the same address as black-aperture. - O wait no I just learnt how to read WhoIS this has been educational

[QUOTE=rosthouse;33843678]While it is probably fake, is it just me or has there been an increase in HL3 mentions/rumours/hints in the last 2-3 months?[/QUOTE] What if Valve are the ones spreading the rumors :O