The truth about a suspicious Killzone 2 trailer in 2005 finally comes out

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Should you need to stock up on delightful nerd-documentary fodder for holiday-week hibernation-and you've already watched Ars' Apollo video series-let me recommend the latest entry from the gaming-history video producers at Noclip: Chasing the Horizon: The Story of Zero Dawn. The Patreon- and Kickstarter-funded documentarians at Noclip have just released their latest, hour-long piece, and it centers on the Amsterdam game studio Guerrilla, makers of this year's stellar Horizon: Zero Dawn.

To tell the Horizon story, Noclip rewinds the clock to the studio's early days with first-person shooters. In this rewind, Guerrilla finally tells the story behind a notorious moment for the studio and Sony: the first reveal of Killzone 2. As it turns out, the whole thing was "bullshot"-a term used to describe when fake, touched-up imagery is sold to fans as an actual game.

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