Halo 3 Leaked Early: Street Date Smashed By 2 Weeks
Filed under: Gaming, News, Xbox 360 | By: Vincent
Posted on: September 15, 2007 | 13 Comments
A Norwegian game shop called “Expert” yesterday sold 2, if not at least more copies of the upcoming blockbuster Halo 3 to the public.
“Halo 3″; the upcoming successor to the smash-hit game of 2005 Halo 2, is due to be released to the public in 2 weeks time, and is the biggest pre-ordered game of all time and is currently at around the 4.5 million mark due to set Bungie (Developers of the game) and Microsoft (Publishers) a whole deal of money coming in their way.
Following these claims, photos of the game, along with the menu of the game running were posted as proof to support these claims. (One shown in at the beginning of this post)
In the past, street dates have been broken and leaked onto the internet resulting in competitor suits but it has been rare for such a prestigious game endorsed by Microsoft to have been leaked this early onto the streets in broad daylight. Luckily, as of yet the game hasn’t been uploaded onto the internet from where the situation could spiral out of hand even further.
As of yet, no official statements have been made by Bungie, Microsoft or the retailer itself. Word is soon expected, due to the scale of this problem and the ever-increasing jealousy of Halo Fan-boys.
Has anyone else heard of any other reporting’s of the game being released? What do you think this means for Microsoft and the game?
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Fucking foreigners.
Someone needs to sue this guy. Someone called Microsoft.
Even taking the entire stor wouldn’t be enough to make up for his jackassery.
Why blame on foreigners? I am from Sweden myself and thinks it is as wrong as you are. But just because one or two persons were able to get it does not mean that everyone else are able to it. So think twice before you make an other stupid comment as you just did.
oh man, selling a VIDYA GAEM a week early is a horrible offense! this man should be beaten out of house and home, dragged through the streets, and hanged!
Good satire is not the same as poor spelling. Learn to spell before you make a sad attempt at it. Halo is a multi million dollar franchise, and people have had legal action taken against them for much less than that.
I spelled VIDYA GAEM correctly, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
WTF! run em’ over, hang em’ by their genitals. seriously who release one of the most hyped game of the year 2 wks early, wtf…
Ron’s right, that’s the only thing he spelled incorrectly, and was clearly meant by him to be spelled that way.
That said, I still disagree with him. The store signed a contract when they stocked the game that said they would not sell it before the 25th. Selling it as essentially a robbery. Buying it is essentially being an accomplice in crime, encouraging theft, and receiving stolen property.
But what’s done is done. To remain spoiler free, please uninstall your copy of the internet at the tone. Beep.
it doesn’t matter if they are fucking foreigners or not
but should be sued for buying those leaked copies.
I wish the guy at my video game store would sell me a copy.
thats total B.S.