Half-Life 3 Logo Appears on Mystery Website - Polidicks

[QUOTE=wingless;33843605]Yeah, when you whois the half-life3 site it has been registered since 1999. I don't know.[/QUOTE] Valve owns it, [url]http://www.half-life3.com[/url] redirects to the orange box site

behind the lambda in the [url]http://black-aperture.com/[/url] site, there is an aperture science sign. anyone saw that?

Find this pretty interesting: [url]lambdageneration.com/posts/informant-close-to-valve-tells-valve-arg-network-admin-and-steamcast-co-host-gabe-has-given-the-go-ahead-for-half-life-hints/[/url]

[QUOTE=cam64DD;33843735]behind the lambda in the [url]http://black-aperture.com/[/url] site, there is an aperture science sign. anyone saw that?[/QUOTE] The title of the webpage is also: "Status: Mark 7". But it's most likely fake.

[QUOTE=cam64DD;33843735]behind the lambda in the [url]http://black-aperture.com/[/url] site, there is an aperture science sign. anyone saw that?[/QUOTE] Hey, cool.

Valve is damn good hiding their secrets and releasing hidden stuff. valve :argh:

[QUOTE=tomatmann;33843766]Valve is damn good hiding their secrets and releasing hidden stuff. [B]valve :arg[/B]h:[/QUOTE] ARG confirmed.

I got bored, so I decided to see if the filename for that image means anything, if you change each letter to it's corresponding number (a=1 b=2 and so on) you get 523268123719. Stick some fancy symbols in there you get (523) 268-123-719. Think it means, ANYTHING?!

It's most likely a fake, sigh. I hoped Valve would start doing something HL3 related. :c

[QUOTE=wingless;33843809]I got bored, so I decided to see if the filename for that image means anything, if you change each letter to it's corresponding number (a=1 b=2 and so on) you get 523268123719. Stick some fancy symbols in there you get (523) 268-123-719. Think it means, ANYTHING?![/QUOTE] It means Half Life 3 comes out 52:32 (hour:minute) on the 68th of janruary, 3 for half life 3, and there's 7 months of ARG before that containing the numbers one and nine.

Someone should email Gabe about the site, Just to confirm fake.

[QUOTE=wingless;33843860]Someone should email Gabe about the site, Just to confirm fake.[/QUOTE] You act like he would give the truth (if it were a real site)

[QUOTE=RusselG;33843881]You act like he would give the truth (if it were a real site)[/QUOTE] Most of the time he does, when it's fake.

He'll just make a joke about it "[I]NOT BEING THE BEGINNING OF AN ARG[/I]" and that you should "[I]NOT LOOK ANY FURTHER INTO THE MATTER[/I]"

never heard of [url]www.itanimulli.com[/url] ? Someone could have easiily purchased Half-Life3.com to redirect you to the Orange Box site.

[QUOTE=massaki;33843568]Do you guys not read?[/QUOTE] Home > Forum > Facepunch > [I]Sensationalist Headlines[/I] You get the point.

If it is real, which is highly unlikely, Black-Aperture is a stupid name.

[QUOTE=Daniellynet;33843824]I hoped Valve would start doing something HL3 related. :c[/QUOTE] I don't think they're ever going to. I mean, the last episode was released four years ago. Since then, there's only been scant amounts of information about the future of the series released, and none of what we know (or [i]think[/i] we know, anyway) is very helpful or particularly revealing for that matter (plenty of anonymous tips and back-room whispers floating around, however, on forums the Internet over). And Valve's moved on to other projects: the L4D games, Team Fortress 2, both Portal games, DOTA, and now a new Counter Strike sequel. That last bit is what leads me to believe they've given up on the series, much as I'd like to believe otherwise. If they haven't given up on it, then it's assuredly not going to be within the next few years that we'll hear (or see, for that matter) anything of a finale to HL2. Honestly, it's time to stop with the suspenseful marketing tactics. Either tell us if you're even planning to finish the series or not.

This website has been proven fake already hours before this thread...

[QUOTE=VaSTinY;33844254]This website has been proven fake already hours before this thread...[/QUOTE] Source?

"Professional-looking logo" my ass

Totally newsworthy, Escapist.

how i will know if HL3/Ep3 was officially announced: when i cant acess any valve related site/forums,

[QUOTE=LarparNar;33843612]Pretty sure this is fake. This is more interesting: [url]http://lambdageneration.com/posts/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas/[/url][/QUOTE] If it's Australian, the aurora would be the Aurora Australis, not the Aurora Borealis Which is kind of a big deal since the "Borealis" bit is the only part that links to Half-Life. Could just be Valve screwing up but if they're going to go to the effort of making another ARG I think they'd do their homework.

[QUOTE=wingless;33844292]Source?[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/752880]Half Life 2 Episode 3 Discussion[/url] - read around the later pages

[QUOTE=wingless;33843555]When you click the logo it links to Half-life3.com which links to the half-life 2 site. Hmm.[/QUOTE] Anyone could buy a domain and make it redirect. [url]http://heyyayyay.webs.com/satanisourgod.htm[/url] It's leads to Obama's website. Yes I didn't buy it, but it could still work.

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;33843542]Prove it's owned by Valve, if not, it's another fanshit site[/QUOTE] If its owned by Valve they have been very good at covering their tracks, to the point of hosting it on a shared host that also hosts a load of spam sites.

[QUOTE=VaSTinY;33844254]This website has been proven fake already hours before this thread...[/QUOTE] This was posted just in the first page: [quote]Hassen, David ATTN BLACK-APERTURE.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA. US 18222 Domain Name: BLACK-APERTURE.COM[/quote] [quote]Registrant: Valve Corporation ATTN HALF-LIFE3.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA 18222 US Domain Name: HALF-LIFE3.COM[/quote] Notice how both have the same address? Well, there you go. Half-Life2.com is registered to the same address too.

[QUOTE=simkas;33846516]Just in the first page: Notice how both have the same address? Well, there you go. Half-Life2.com is registered to the same address too.[/QUOTE] Hope... suddenly reinstated.

[QUOTE=simkas;33846516]This was posted just in the first page: Notice how both have the same address? Well, there you go. Half-Life2.com is registered to the same address too.[/QUOTE] Anyone can register a domain through that company, its a privacy service. Although if I remember rightly it is the one that Valve used for various portal domains.