Do you remember the numerous viral websites Microsoft opened just before the Xbox 360 launch in order to raise the hype of its next-generation console? Good. However, what you don't know is that Microsoft seems to take a liking to such things and uses every kind of media to give hints that very few people will be able to catch.

Fortunately for us, Joystiq.com is among them and has spread its discovery: during the TV Advertising titled Cops & Robbers 2 cars appears in the video and their license plates are the clues we are talking about. The first license plate (00:18 of the video) says "GOW - 1106" which can be read as Gears of War will be released on November 2006 (and that's true!); on the other hand, the second one (00:50 of the video) says "HA LO0307".

Will it mean "Halo will be released on March 2007" or "Halo 3 will be released on 2007"? We leave you with this uncertainty and with the advertising video and two screenshots of the car license plates.

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Xbox 360 Adv - Cops and Robbers