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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 1:33AM (Unverified) said

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I've been blue-balled long enough!!! Release the friggen announcement!

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 2:07AM (Unverified) said

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Exactly...At this point it's getting annoying!
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 1:42AM (Unverified) said

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That picture is fake. Notice the transparent "Halo 3" in the background. Also there's 3 /// after the HTTP.

www.halocrusades.com

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 2:21AM (Unverified) said

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It's real. That screenshot comes from PartnerNet (copy of Xbox Live) for developers. That picture is from my friends dev kit. The original Bungie.net thread was deleted within 5 minutes. Not locked, DELETED. They have since removed the message (after our thread was deleted), but here are some pictures that were taken from his HDTV:

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7938/dsc0016bv2.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2654/dsc0011mw9.jpg

Also, here is a picture proving that it's his HDTV....

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1226/dscn0115xe5.jpg

Hope this clears some stuff up, but I guarentee you, come tomorrow, It won't be a rumor anymore :)

-Vic

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 2:24AM MrU2 said

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Very interesting... With all of this hype, Bungie had bettter have come up with something to actually get hyped about.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 2:40AM wellsley said

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Heh..."friend's," that's what they all say...it's not like you couldn't display the picture on your HDTV any other way...nope, none at all...

I also find it odd that you used two different camera's for the first two and last picture...

Just seems kinda fishy to me.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 2:58AM (Unverified) said

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It's not hard to put a picture onto your TV or 360 - you can easily make a picture and then display it on your set...

I'm not convinced.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 3:02AM matt247 said

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Why is there a seem on the right side of the TV? Looks like you just photoshoped the rest of the image so that it would just fit on the TV.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 3:05AM (Unverified) said

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For the record, that guy IS my friend and those ARE my pictures.

And for the technical guy who tries to find the flaws :? here is the pic with the original camera i took the first pics with.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3275/dsc0019as8.jpg

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For anyone else that thinks its fake, you have the right to your opinion im okay with that.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:29AM whatthegeek said

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Just because he IS your friend, and those ARE your pictures, that doesn't mean you're being honest. Who are you? Why are you on partner net? What makes you so special that you've seen this magical screen no one else has seen?
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 4:39AM tonyh750 said

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This is in no way real. ANYTHING published by a major company would not have as stupid of a typo as "///".

Photoshop success, URL failure

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 5:15AM (Unverified) said

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Why don't you try writing the URL as written into your browser address bar and see what happens?
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 5:32AM (Unverified) said

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Actually, three /// is used by some companies. It's not like it makes a difference. The World of Warcraft website uses it.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 4:49AM (Unverified) said

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Remember those words when you see the same screen tomorrow :)

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 3:24PM Sentox said

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Looks like this man was right. Just in case anyone forgot :P
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 7:47AM (Unverified) said

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00:02:20:48 Time left , lets see what happens when that hits 00:00:00:00 lol

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:15AM (Unverified) said

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i cant see the countdown anymore
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 8:20AM (Unverified) said

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Halo Of Wars , 3rd person would be nice but i think they should do a halo 4 becuase halo 3 was nothing special and it was suppose to use all the power of the 360..... lol. Flat textures ftw!

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 8:36AM (Unverified) said

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the site http:///bungie.net still redirects to bungie, although I do not know why they would put the extra one in as the majority of people recognize web addresses with only 2 of them. either way, I think bungie needs to cut the crap and tell us already. I have a feeling that whatever it is, it is not going to be as innovative as the Halo series WAS. Anyways, I guess I am tired of Halo and that is what bungie does. However, I am open to changing my opinion with evidence of a sweet game. Who wouldn't want another great game to play?

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:07AM Jack Tretton said

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"We may have jumped the gun on this one..."

Don't worry about it; those hacks at Kotaku do it all the time.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:41AM A2Aegis said

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and the best part about Kotaku is that they don't usually bother correcting themselves afterwards.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:07AM Jack Tretton said

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@Aegis

Nope. It must be something they learn at Gawker Media day camp.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:27AM whatthegeek said

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I've got a fair bit of experience spotting photoshop jobs - this looks to me like a mediocre photoshop job displayed on a television. I'm sure we'll see a big announcement at the end of the countdown, I don't think it'll be the fancy screen SBBCarl and Vic made up.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:31AM whatthegeek said

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Just in case no one else bothered to do this, I peeked at SBBCarl, and Vic's joystiq profile. Guess what? This is the first time either of them has commented here. This smells more and more like a good old fashioned internet hoax.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:41AM (Unverified) said

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I'm just curious as to why Bungie, the keepers of all things meme-like, would use "Wall of Text" for two sentences. That's like putting "tl;dr" on a one sentence statement.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:51AM (Unverified) said

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"Fakiness" aside, I hate Bungie for making me wait by my computer for the last 26:20 of the countdown, my cursor hovering over the refresh button... I've become a fanboy. In... 16:26 I may need to go cry about it.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:52AM hyghwayman said

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14 min

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 9:56AM hyghwayman said

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10 min

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:02AM hyghwayman said

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5 min , holding still

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:04AM (Unverified) said

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3 minutes to go.....

Thankfully it's 3:07pm UK time.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:05AM (Unverified) said

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I can't believe I just noticed this: In all the excitement about the countdown, I missed Bungie's text at the top and bottom. "There will be a payoff" and "It won't be a letter." Thanks to Microsoft for that joke being "funny."

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:06AM ColeM said

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1 min!

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:08AM (Unverified) said

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Well now it just says 'rebooting' and nothing. Refreshed twice.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:12AM hyghwayman said

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same here
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:10AM (Unverified) said

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Nada, stuck on rebooting

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:11AM tucker973 said

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So.... Halo 3 "prepare to drop"? Huh?

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:13AM (Unverified) said

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very interesting...but halo 3...prepare to drop?

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:14AM (Unverified) said

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umm wtf? lmao

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:14AM (Unverified) said

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Keep It Clean teaser trailer just been released on Bungie.net - downloading it now

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:14AM hotdogcookingrobot said

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I waited for this? I don't get it.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:17AM (Unverified) said

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halo 3 version 2?

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:18AM whatthegeek said

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Ugh - all the E3 nonsense, TWO countdowns (one failed, one not), and it's a trailer. Sorry Bungie, but you didn't need to work this up so hard - I know it's partly MS's fault, but this is sorta full of fail. It was a neat teaser, but as teasers often do, it didn't explain much. So they teased a teaser from July 'til now - bah.

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:18AM (Unverified) said

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My first thought was that this tied in with the Legendary ending of Halo3. That is the planet they were drifiting toward and the 'meteors' are debris?

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:23AM (Unverified) said

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It looked like pods to me. The ones that carried the weapons and soldiers? No?

I think it could be a map pack, a true map (or story) editor, or maybe just maybe an expansion pack (new campaign levels!!!) That'd be fuuun, and explain some of the skull achievements AND why there were so many different "levels" achievements (when there are only 3 each in their previous map packs.)
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Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:19AM (Unverified) said

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Halo 3 -- Prepare to Drop!!!

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 3:24PM (Unverified) said

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This video is odd I did see the city of New Mombasa. So I guess it could be after halo 3 after the city is rebuilt. That or before halo 3 during halo 2 when the city is attacked

Posted: Sep 25th 2008 10:25AM (Unverified) said

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ugh, what is wrong with everyone...how many other companies are out there that would go through this level of detail to entice its audience. I know its teh internets, but we don't have to over analyze everthing...they could have you know, not released ANYTHING!

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