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Re: Valve Hints something with 3 in it

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DPDarkPrimus wrote:They develop and distribute a shit-load of hats.
Just going to point out that many of the hats are community-made.
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Terralthra wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:They develop and distribute a shit-load of hats.
Just going to point out that many of the hats are community-made.
Indeed, and those folks get cut checks so big that they have to fly out and personally get them from Valve because they can't be mailed.
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It's definitely Hale-life 3; valve just launched this site;
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Clicking on the image takes you the Orange Box website, via http://www.half-life3.com/ . Odd.

Black-aperture.com is a very odd choice of URL, unless whoever making that website didn't have access to the URLs that Valve already owns. Lets see what a Whois lookup says:
Registrant:
Hassen, David
ATTN BLACK-APERTURE.COM
care of Network Solutions
PO Box 459
Drums, PA. US 18222


Domain Name: BLACK-APERTURE.COM

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Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Hassen, David zy8s26rr3hw@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
ATTN BLACK-APERTURE.COM
care of Network Solutions
PO Box 459
Drums, PA 18222
US
570-708-8780


Record expires on 19-Dec-2012.
Record created on 19-Dec-2011.
Database last updated on 24-Dec-2011 00:18:09 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS65.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS66.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

This listing is a Network Solutions Private Registration. Mail
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include the registrant's domain name in the address.
That doesn't look like a domain owned by Valve. Especially with a record creation date of last monday.
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is the site name a tease to everybody that thinks chell should join the HL cast in three?
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Marko Dash wrote:is the site name a tease to everybody that thinks chell should join the HL cast in three?
I'm pretty sure it's alluding to the fact that the Aperture Science ship the Borealis is apparently going to be a major plot point/location in the next Half-Life game. Also Black Mesa + Aperture = Black Aperture.

You can see the Aperture Science logo inside the logo, faintly brighter than the black background. Put the picture in an image editing program and turn up the brightness to see it better, I guess?

I'm pretty sure this isn't a hoax, but it could be!

Related: http://atramental-plateau.com/ Black Mesa logo and 'E3 2012' in black font on a black background.
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