[Update/Correction: As noted by a reader in the comments below, the April Fool’s joke was on a spoofed domain that appeared to be from Valve, but actually wasn’t. We’ve updated the headline to reflect this fact. Original post below.]

Anyone who was online yesterday encountered more than a few April Fool’s jokes. Most of them were lighthearted and fun, as we documented yesterday.

But fans of the hit Half-Life franchise from video-game developer Valve were put on a roller-coaster of emotions yesterday when they encoutered this promotional teaser …

When they clicked through, this is the message they saw, with a likeness of Valve boss Gabe Newell …

Ouch.

Via Kotaku.

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