{"id":29894,"date":"2011-12-29T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T10:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29894"},"modified":"2012-01-03T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T07:40:37","slug":"valve-to-planet-earth-you-are-being-trolled-about-half-life-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29894-valve-to-planet-earth-you-are-being-trolled-about-half-life-3","title":{"rendered":"Valve to Planet Earth: “You are being trolled” about Half-Life 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, apparently, this guy I know heard from a friend who heard from a cousin who heard from an ex who heard from a talking dog who heard from somebody else who heard from this person who works at Valve<\/a> that Half-Life 3.<\/p>\n

Or something like that, it was a bit vague. Is it true<\/em>?! Nah.<\/p>\n

Since a photo of a Valve employee wearing a Half-Life 3 T-shirt turned up on the intertubes a few weeks back, gamers have been finding secret messages and revelations about the game everywhere. Unfortunately, it’s all just wishful thinking and trolls.<\/p>\n

\"Half-Life<\/a>

Half-Life 3 shirt<\/p><\/div>\n

Valve’s Chet Faliszek has officially denied any and all rumours of the game over on the Steam forums<\/a>:<\/p>\n

You are being trolled.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no ARG.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wheatley\u2019s speech was set in Portal 2 fiction \u2013 that is all.<\/em><\/p>\n

There has been no directive from Gabe to leak anything. That is all false.<\/em><\/p>\n

I just want to say this so there is no confusion. This is the community trolling the community nothing more. While it is nice to see people excited about anything HL, I hate seeing people be trolled like this.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that’s that. Although, they would say that, wouldn’t they? I mean, that’s just part of the elaborate marketing. And look at this:<\/p>\n

You a<\/strong><\/span>re being trolled.<\/em><\/p>\n

There i<\/strong><\/span>s no ARG.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wh<\/strong><\/span>eatl<\/strong><\/span>ey\u2019s speech was set in Portal 2 f<\/strong><\/span>iction \u2013<\/strong><\/span> that is all.<\/em>
\nThere has been no directive from Gabe to l<\/strong><\/span>eak anything. That is all false.<\/em><\/p>\n

I just want to say this so there is no conf<\/strong><\/span>usion. This is the community trolling the community nothing more<\/strong><\/span>. While it is nice to see people excited about anything HL, I hate seeing people be trolled like this.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you rearrange the red letters and the dash (a; i; h; l; f; -; l; f; e) it spells Half-Life<\/em>. And wait, there are 73 words in the message. That’s a prime number, and so is the number 3<\/em>! OH. EM. GEE. I think we’re onto something here, guys. I bet if we can decode the whole message, we’ll find the game’s source code.<\/p>\n

Source: GamingBolt<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no ARG, no hidden messages, no secret directive, no spoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":28847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1747,1343,21,1748],"class_list":["post-29894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-chet-faliszek","tag-half-life-3","tag-headline","tag-valve-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29897,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions\/29897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}