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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Sites Appear
b0r1s writes "Gamespot was among the dozens of gaming news sites to point readers to the arrival of the first of Nintendo's apparent marketing sites for Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. Having started the trend with Datadyne prior to the launch of Perfect Dark, Nintendo apparently pokes fun at ilovebees.com with several different fake domains. Also included are links to government contractors sites. It seems like Channel 51 and Orbis Labs will both be updated in the weeks prior to the release of Metroid Prime 2. Channel 51 seems to have new stories every week, and Orbis Labs promises that test videos of the Battle Sphere are coming soon. In addition, there is a name and password login on the Orbis site, which we expect will be leaked--or even "hacked"--later on."
I enjoyed the picture of the badass sphere machine in a green, calm field. Subtle parody, i've seen quite a site with similar images in their "investors" links.
When I saw that the domains were just copycat, I was surprised they didn't register "iloveeevees.com" and "ilovebeedrills.com". I mean, who says you have to promote *one* product on a website? Surely they might be able to generate an extra sale or two from a Pokemon fanatic... :P
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