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Halo 2 Website Puzzle Confounds

Posted by michael on from the buzz-buzz dept.

redune45 writes "The Halo 2 Theatrical trailer ends with the normal Xbox logo, but it also briefly replaces xbox.com with ilovebees.com. Going to ilovebees.com it appears that the site has been 'hacked', adding to the mystery. The 'owner' of the site set up a separate blog with a post talking about the error. There is a huge thread on the Bungie.net forums on the same issue. The WHOIS information for this site shows that it was first registered on June 14, 2004. But no obvious clues other than that are available. What is going on here?" There's at least one Wiki set up to gather clues. We also mentioned this in an earlier Halo story.

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  1. Other Forums by jaybird144 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can also read a LOT of information on this website at the unfiction forum dedicated to it. Really interesting stuff.

  2. On the first screen of ilovebees.com by herrvinny · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a black square overlaying the ilovebees main page, it says:

    HALT - MODULE CORE HEMORRHAGE

    Control has been yielded to the SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX.

    This medium is classified, and has a STRONG INTRUSIVE INCLINATION.

    In 3 days, network throttling will erode.

    In 17 days this medium will metastasize.

    COUNTDOWN TO WIDE AWAKE AND PHYSICAL:
    30:13:38:28:985

    Make your decisions accordingly.

    I'm using IE 6, I don't know if it'll show up on Firefox. Perhaps a preview of what we'll see in Halo 2? (Computer system on the fritz, etc?)

  3. Re:audio track? by herrvinny · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is something else hidden in it, or at least it sounds like it. There's some kind of "computer" type sound in the back, something along the lines of the sound computers made in the movies of the 70's and 80's....