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Alternate Reality Game for Xbox 2 E3 Unveiling

Posted by Zonk on from the ants-are-the-new-bees dept.

Gamespot has a heads up about a new possible Alternate reality game celebrating the Xbox 2 E3 unveiling. The game site, Our Colony, has a countdown meter running down until just a few days before Microsoft's pre-E3 unveiling of the Xbox 2 console. From the article: "The countdown will ends at 8pm PDT on Thursday, May 12, nearly four days to the hour before Microsoft's pre-E3 presentation on the evening of May 16. What will happen on May 12 remains unclear."

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  1. GameSpot page renders badly in firefox by cipher+uk · · Score: 2, Informative

    anyone else have a problem the text overflowing the normal area over advertisements and the background making it hard to read (firefox 1.0.2/win32 Gecko/20050321)

  2. X-Box and PS3 Unveiling Together by Rhaythe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one can't wait until both the new systems are "revealed" this year at the same event. Be nice to finally put all the speculation and "well my system will do THIS" bickering to rest. Then comes the drooling fanboy bickering, and well, there's still no cure for that.

  3. I Love Ants? by centauri · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So instead of a beehive, it's an ant colony. Instead of the magic number being 7, the magic number is 8. I love alternate reality games, but this one seems to be taking a few too many clues from ilovebees.com.

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    1. Re:I Love Ants? by CoffeeJedi · · Score: 2, Informative

      we've gotten some pretty big clues that its not 4orty 2wo, as they've been dropping hints that they're working on something BIG

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  4. anyone know what to type in? by override11 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has anyone got past their 1st screen? what do you type in?

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    1. Re:anyone know what to type in? by HavokDevNull · · Score: 3, Informative

      Unfiction has been playing for a bit and have already massed some information.

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    2. Re:anyone know what to type in? by sho222 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      There's a pretty obvious hint in the gamespot article linked from the /. summary. Good luck, though, the site gives an error message literaly every other click. It's pretty clear they are running a MSFT app server, and a poorly tuned one at that (if that's not redundant).

  5. Immersion Unlimited by NashCarey · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have forums with player working on the puzzles. Immersion Unlimited. They have been working for a while on this an no one had a clue this was really linked to anything other than a "grassroots" Alternate Reality Game.

    For more info, see here

    1. Re:Immersion Unlimited by sux0rbiscuit · · Score: 2, Informative

      I play Our Colony through IU and am a member of ARGolonists. If any of you want to play with us, feel free to join. We have alot of points, and are in second now. We were in first, but got pushed down by a hacker.