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!]
Contest:
3:31 PM on 09.14.2007
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Linde and Namelessted need to get it over with and sumo wrestle. OR Linde's beard could just suffocate any who dares challenge.
PS: After being shaved off shortly after E3, the beard is making a swift comeback. It's slowly reaching the epic Zach Galifianakis stage.
France called, they want their 1980's eurotrash haircut back.
I copy pasta'd... and DVD, Eurotrash was a good movie, I don't care what they say!
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
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.
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.
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.
...which I love