No doubt the more fanatical amongst you have already dissected every last frame of today's Halo 3 teaser from Bungie. While dissecting, however, did you catch this line? Says, quite clearly, "MADDIE, WHERE ARE YOU?". Now, in all likelihood, this'll have something to do either with somebody/something in the game called Maddie, or at the least some obscure, related facet of the Haloverse. It's just a shame nobody at Bungie was aware of the high-profile 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeline McCann, who was commonly referred to in the media as simply "Maddie", because that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the words. Second thing was "ooo, that might be a little much". An "oops, awful coincidence, that" message from Bungie couldn't hurt. Provided it was an accident, at any rate. UPDATE - Bungie have responded to the similarity, calling the reference "an unfortunate and unintended coincidence".
DISCUSSION
Has a portuguese nacional, this whole Maddie thing left quite some open wounds around here. It was bad enought we had to let the McCann leave to England instead of persuing the investigation where they were guilty of foul play, we also had to endure with a constant barrage of the british sensasionalist media calling our police forces incompent every day.
We don't take kindly such crap around here. Ask any portuguese (parent or not) their opinion and we reply with a single opinion: Parent negligence. This is punishable by our law. No parent in their right mind would leave a 4 year old alone at home taking care of her 2 year old brothers.
Anyway, this was terrible to Portugal in general, and seeing splashed in something as a teaser trailer, regardless of what the hell it is supposed to mean (im waiting for your official comment, Bungie), coincidence or not, it's just plain wrong.
PR suicide. I love it.