Halo fans / Tinfoil hatters post here!

[Jaguar]

This is shaping out to be one of the most bizarre stories to ever grace the gaming world.

There was a cinematic Halo 2 trailer that was first played in theaters, but was released about a week ago to the internet. The trailer ends with a screen showing the Xbox logo, and under it, a link to the Xbox website. But for a few short frames, the link text changes...

[Jaguar]

It remains like that for less than a second before changing back.

This is bizarre enough, but try actually going to the site.

Even weirder. It is as if a normal and personal site got taken over by a hacker.

The countdown timer will finish on August 24th. This is the date of the next Xbox magazine release.

The Halo community has gone pretty crazy for the past few days. The largest fan site actually is banning the use of the word "bee" in forum posts because they've been so thoroughly flooded with bizarre conspiracy theorys.

But what's scary is, there definitely is some bizarre conspiracy going on.

[Kuciwalker]

Literally.

This is freaking hilarious!

[General Ludd]

It's just an INTARNET MYSTERY!?!?@? advertising hype engine.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Literally.

This is freaking hilarious!

What's horrible about this is that the owners of the site don't know what is going on. As in, they have absolutely nothing to do with Halo, Microsoft, Bungie, or anything else. They are just some girl and her aunt.

[Jaguar]

This is the blog site made by the girl after the site was hacked.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Jaguar
This is the blog site made by the girl after the site was hacked.

[Kassiopeia]

If you want to actually read how this mystery is being sorted out by people, go here. I don't have an XBox nor am I interested in playing Halo 2, so I can study the hype machine without guilt. Alternate Reality Games are fun in a way. I never bother to take part though, I just somehow get lost since the game arrangers are throwing out massive amounts of information. I just read what the people are finding out.

[Jaguar]

I'm aware of most of the threads. I'm a Halo fan. I decided to avoid discussing it on actual Halo sites, though, because they're flooded enough anyway.


BTW, check this out:

http://www.cafeshops.com/ilovebees

Someone pointed it out on halo.bungie.org, the main Halo fan site. Particularly notice the T-shirt that says 11 + 9 + 4 = 24.

Firstly, notice 24, the date in August that ILB counts down to. But also notice 11, 9, 4. Or 11/9/04. That happens to be the Halo 2 release date.

Also, that site appears to have changed a little. A few days ago, it also mentioned something about the world ending on August 24th.


The conspiracy continues to spread across the web!

[Kassiopeia]

The Cafeshops shop has been generally concluded to be an attempt to cash in on the actual game. So I wouldn't read too much into it.

[Skanky Burns]

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
The Cafeshops shop has been generally concluded to be an attempt to cash in on the actual game. So I wouldn't read too much into it.

Yea, I read that just a little while after making that post.

What's great is that even people who aren't in the conspiracy add to it!

[Apocalypse]

Awesome marketing strategty

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
Awesome marketing strategty

Yeah, people eat this crap up for some reason.

[FrostyBoy]

Nahh, this is just for fun.

And a good way of doing it too.