Sony does some creative Halo 3 Wikipedia vandalism

Not one to be undermined by the huge pile of preorders, branded products, and other fun stuff that is going to happen when Halo 3 ships this year, Sony decided that it would be excellent to do a bit of creative vandalism of the Halo 3 Wikipedia entry.

The stupid part is that Wikipedia and security folks are on to this one, so they will backtrack this puppy, and Sony SECA was stupid enough to use their own IP address as the source of the edit. Sony was caught red handed being naughty and showing poor sportsmanship when it comes to one of the hottest games for the Xbox.

On the Halo series page at Wikipedia, an edit originated from Sony Computer Entertainment casts aspersions on Microsoft’s Halo 3. In the Halo 3 section of the Halo page, Sony added “(Halo 3) wont look any better than Halo 2.” Since then, the Halo page has been corrected and locked from further vandalism. Source: N4G

The Wikipedia entry is even more amusing as they have put up the edits right here on the main page. You can’t miss it.

This is being picked up by just about everyone from Xboxnowonline, to games radar and others. While it is good that people are caught doing this, the idea of vandalizing the Wikipedia entry might have sounded like a good idea, but in the end is going to cost Sony even more, just at the time when they are already under fire for a poorly performing PS3.