Beautiful Half-Life 3 troll greets gamescom attendees

CONFIRMED!

Half-Life 3 is not confirmed, despite what you may see out of Germany. A giant, orange banner outside of gamescom reads, “Half-Life: 3” in large print. Beneath it lies arcane, inscrutable text (what the fuck is “redakteure”!?) that is meant to follow the “3,” which is separated from the “Half-Life” via a colon (in Cologne, Germany!).

Some A++ trolling going on at the entrance to Gamescom this year. pic.twitter.com/yXBOZAaPBJ

— Aoife Wilson (@AoifeLockhart) August 16, 2016

Thankfully someone can parse these runes.

@orphandroid @AoifeLockhart Nah, it’s not a :3, it’s “Half-Life:” and “3 editors who played it back then”. The 3 belongs to the editors.

— Kristin Knillmann (@kristinthefox) August 16, 2016

Ahhh.

Fuckers.