The most memorable game leak of the village - P.2

Leak games are always the source of endless rumors of gamers besides rumors, sometimes it's just fake leaks but sometimes much bigger.

Leak games seem to be an integral part of the gaming industry. Besides waiting for information from game companies, the community can fully rely on the leaked information, though the accuracy may not be very high. We will continue to look back on the most memorable game leaks ever with the next victims!

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

After the resounding success of MW2, the Modern Warfare series faced great turbulence from the discord between Infinity Ward and Activision. The fact that many key members of the studio left made many worried for part 3 until Sledgehammer Games was chosen to join the group of 3 development studios of the Call of Duty series. Although this studio contributed to the success of MW3, it also caused some difficulties before the game was released. Accordingly, in May 2011, the Kotaku game site gathered a lot of reliable information from 'internally' both the developer and the MW3 publisher and published them publicly.

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The information includes details of the entire storyline, concept art, screenshots, audio files, weapons, levels and game modes, all with absolute accuracy. This event caused Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg to frantically promote advertising, launching trailers and organizing events as quickly as possible in the following weeks in order to save the company's million-dollar marketing campaign. Fortunately for Activision, MW3 continues to be a great success, confirming the name of the Call of Duty brand.

Halo game series

In addition to the tremendous impact on the gaming industry, the Halo series also maintains the tradition of leaking before the release date. It all started with Halo 2, the most anticipated FPS game of the time. According to the investigation, it is likely that a French version of the Halo 2 game from a European production facility was stolen and then released online, causing the game to be released three weeks earlier. At the same time, Microsoft also had to turn to work with authorities to prevent the distribution of pirated games.

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Next, the Halo 3 version was also launched a week earlier when some shops in the UK opened the game too early. Next in France many places sold Halo 3: ODST before the calendar to 1 month. Then it was Halo Reach's turn to continue being leaked due to the game's code being stolen and distributed. Halo 4 also did not escape when continuing to leak game versions and some photos and videos that made gamers play and post videos of it rampant online, forcing Microsoft to lock down any Xbox Live accounts showing signs of playing Halo. 4 before launch date. After that, both Halo 5 and Halo: Master Chief Collection continued to leak so much important information that fans probably didn't need to wait for a notice from the publisher. With this momentum, it is not surprising that the upcoming Halo Infinite will continue this tradition.

Far Cry 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction

Back in 2006, Ubisoft was rapidly advancing with a series of large-scale gaming projects that were expected. Later that year, an archive of the company was stolen from the server and was quickly released online. These include concept art and information about the major projects Ubisoft is investing in development.

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The brand's brand new Assassin's Creed leaked is not a big deal when the game itself has been performed at events before, but the two most notable projects are Far Cry 2. and Splinter Cell: Conviction also leaked while neither of them had been officially announced by Ubisoft. The fact that the two projects are still in the early stages of development has leaked core information, causing difficulties for Ubisoft, but at the same time, making these two games become a selling topic as well as expected from the fans. It can be said that in the risk Ubisoft also salvaged some luck.

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

With the huge success of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty in 2010, Blizzard continues to invest in new content packages for part 2 to expand the storyline. The next story is StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, which is scheduled to be released next in 2013, but unfortunately in October 2010, its CGI ending was leaked and released. widely online. Accordingly, this CGI cut scene is still very rudimentary, each character's lips do not move with some text of the remaining storyboard. But overall this ending still contains enough information about the plot details, voiceover as well as to clearly show the graphic effects company logo making the movie that Blizzard is a customer.

For those who are unable to control their curiosity, most people are dissatisfied with the plot and the direction of the expansion, saying that they are quite meaningless. Later, some sources said that the ending leak was not official and Blizzard could modify the expansion of the expansion based on fan feedback. But finally, when the expansion of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm was officially released, fans could stop thinking that when the CGI ending would appear again, other than that it was a complete CGI. then the content is no different than the primitive version leaked since 2010.