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Quick note: Billboard has been in game since day 1 don't take anything I say as fact http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=34588549 I found out about it thanks to this reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/302zgz/ Go check it out, there's more discussion happening in the comments. Here's some of the old discussion from 2006 in this forum post: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=238898 People suspect the website "xccr.com" could potentially be related. To me it looks to be related to Lost. (I already tried the Lost code, but I couldn't fit the last 2 digits '42' in. Some strange images people were able to find on the website: http://cf.juggle-images.com/matte/white/280x280/sos-brigade-logo-logo-primary.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QWR9EEB.png http://xccr.com/images/x1.gif "Checkpoint .txt"? http://xccr.com/images/progress.txt Searching xccr in google and going to the 2nd result downloads a strange file. I opened it with notepad++ and got this text from it, and uploaded to pastebin so you can take a look: (won't download any files, it just presents the text in plain format for you to look at) http://pastebin.com/kpPdbWAv The contents look rather strange. Could still be unrelated. If it really was an ARG, how could valve know they were going to use it 5 whole years before episode 2 was even released? Or perhaps they always knew they wanted to have an ARG set-up and they just left it dormant for future use? 2 spooky Here's a link to an imgur album with a few images I took of the boxes I got from the xccr website. http://imgur.com/a/E4sJ5