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Media Company Trolls Gamescon Attendees With Fake HALF-LIFE 3 Banner

Hanging right above the entrance to Gamescon 2016 in Cologne, Germany, are banners advertising all the hot upcoming games of the future...and a cruel prank. Eurogamer first reported the news that a media company thought it would be funny to put the following banner above the entrance to the European gaming convention...

The translated text reads HALF-LIFE: 3 "editors who played the game". That's a pretty funny (and expensive) joke to pull on people. I wonder how many writers scrambled for their laptops before they saw the small print! Great stuff!