What's this? Linde's posting not one, but two stories 'bout Halo in a single afternoon? Truth is, the real Linde was brutally slain by one Dick "I Hate Fatties" McVengeance weeks ago. I am his replacement, the Lindetron 4000 -- the thinner, richer, more attractive model.
Anyhow, naughty Norwegian game shop Expert up and broke street date for Halo 3, selling at least two copies to the public, including the above-pictured bloke who looks just thrilled to have a copy. This probably ain't the first and is most likely not the last that we'll see this sort of thing happening in the eleven days leading up to the big release. The news comes to us by way of MaxConsole, which had this to say about the game's less-than-timely appearance in the hands of the unwashed masses:
In the past, premature street date breaks have resulted in competitors following suit, if this occurs, we could all be purchasing Halo 3 a lot earlier than we thought.
Sure, it'd be swell -- I'm the last dude you'll hear complaining about shattered street dates. It's what got our beloved BioShock review to you the week prior to official release, after all. But a release as big as Halo 3 -- arguably the biggest in gaming history, and most certainly Microsoft's largest marketing effort to date -- has already merited some pretty fierce punishment for those looking to slice the red tape like firings, castration, and the merciless slaughter of everyone they've ever loved.
But who knows. Maybe with enough careless error in the next eleven days, we'll all be playing Halo 3 a smidge earlier than expected. Or we'll all be dead.
[Via MaxConsole; thanks Mabec!]
YOU GONNA GET FANBOY-GANGBANGED™
lucky he didnt get the one with spartan helmt...it wont go on his massive square head.....
I wonder If MS is gonna ban him till 9999 if he puts it in. I know it's different than thievin' it but you never know.
They gonna get raped!
Well, everyone study him well. He'll be the one teabagging us all in 12 days.
I cereally doubt they're going to break the date.
Linde and Namelessted need to get it over with and sumo wrestle. OR Linde's beard could just suffocate any who dares challenge.
Ahahah oh god, I hadn't seen that.
PS: After being shaved off shortly after E3, the beard is making a swift comeback. It's slowly reaching the epic Zach Galifianakis stage.
Halo Kid,
France called, they want their 1980's eurotrash haircut back.
I'm suprised you can even spell Zach Galifianakis! Wow!
I copy pasta'd... and DVD, Eurotrash was a good movie, I don't care what they say!
He looks like a kid I beat up in middleschool
Man, I wouldn't even try to connect to Live if I were this kid. I'd be scared the mighty and unforgiving hammer of Bill Gates would come crashing down on my account.
I would so sell that copy of Halo 3 for a crapload of money. And he's not going to get banned since he was just simply lucky enough to walk into a store at the right time and buy it.
@twesterm, M$ doesn't know who got it from a store and who stole it. They will probably put a temp ban until the launch date if they have any mercy.
That dude looks like a popsicle stick with a face drawn on.
did someone use the "smear" tool on this guys face?
I WILL NEVER GET MY FACE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF DTOID :(
Well he has Halo 3 up and running as the TV behind him clearly shows.
Now he just needs wait 11 more days before he can put the ethernet cable into the back of his console again
by then he should have beaten it twice, once on legendary and spoiled the ending for us
@brainderailment
You realize the kind of shit they will be in if they try that? True they can do whatever they want since it's their network but they still have to think of their image. They know the difference between Halo Epsilon and Halo retail and he has a perfectly legal copy that he bought and paid for. If they banned me for playing something that I bought and paid for from a store (because for all they know I thought the release date was this week and there was nothing funny about the purchase at all) there would be all sorts of stink raised.
Now what they can do is lay the smackdown on the store that actually sold it to him. As far as the kid goes, he's safe from MS but not so much from muggers who now have his picture and location.
who knows this guys address?
That's the kid who's mom wouldn't give him a flashlight when we played flashlight tag! So this is what happened to him...damn. Time hasn't been nice to the poor, dude. He grew up all oddly shaped.
Every time there is a major release stories like this run on all the blogs, and people start thinking that other retailers will soon follow suit...and that never happens.
Don't care. I'll be to pre-occupied with Skate over the next 11 days to care about pricks who obtain who obtain early copys.
Halo 3's been in the wild for a few days now
Yeah, it's been for a while.
Yeah, it's been for a while.
Fuck the both of you for making my headline stupid. I hate everyone.
he is not worthey!!!...
I care.
They should bundle it with OXY pads apprently
that picture proves nothing!
he could of easily gotten a case(or just the jack picture) from the store and upload a static picture of halo 3 menu on his tv.
I bet that guy drinks Game Fuel by the gallon.
It looks like one of his eyes is crawling up towards the top of his massive forehead along that square face of his.
I would bet on dead.
Who poses for a photo like that?
This kid needs a PR guy.
He'd better use that casio watch of his to count the seconds till i'm kickin his ass.
This kid is a poster boy for Game Fuel
...which I love