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First Bungie has a counter on their website, which mysteriously ends at 12 hours away and this image comes up:

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Well, at first glance this seems disappointing. But it seems too planned. Not to mention the 7 PM posting time.

And then this surfaces:

http://1019foxfm.net/


It is like ilovebees all over again!
 
Looks exactly like the same language ilovebees had. At least, I seem to remember "module core hemmorage" or something similar.

So does this end up being Halo related?
 
I don't know if this is Halo related or not. But Luke Smith (Bungee employee) said on GAF that the publisher is MS, and that they pulled the plug.
 
Bite? Evade?

Evade evade evade.

Yeah, the language is identical to ILB.

Are there conspiracy theories about how there's not capital letter T, but instead all replaced with sevens?
 
From the source of the page:

Out of the Ashes.. SOON!





google searches show that it is an actual legit radio station

the countdown javascript used was this

why would the sites be related? 101.9 FM is the broadcasting channel, FOX is the station owner..
 
[quote name='Scorch']From the source of the page:

Out of the Ashes.. SOON!





google searches show that it is an actual legit radio station

the countdown javascript used was this

why would the sites be related? 101.9 FM is the broadcasting channel, FOX is the station owner..[/quote]
Maybe we need to look closer at the location? Maybe there's something important about North Carolina. Where's Bungie HQ?
 
Something else to note. If you look in the source, a lot of the class names begin with "dana_". I just did some searching back to Halo 2 release stuff and the ilovebees, and the classes on those pages ALSO had dana_. Could be important? Why would they use that if it's not Halo related?
 
They luvs them numerology. Seven is an important number mostly due (from what I understand) it's biblical implications/usages.

I haven't played Marathon but when ILB was around, I read a lot of info on past Bungie projects, and they really seemed to dig numerology.

Plus, for some reason, "techy" text always interests me. It's all kind of mysterious and foreboding, since it's like...the voice is coming from something totally cold and calculating.
 
[quote name='YodaEXE']Maybe we need to look closer at the location? Maybe there's something important about North Carolina. Where's Bungie HQ?[/quote]

It doesn't relate to Bungie. It's an online radio station. You guys are reading way too much into this.

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Blog:Another_RPG?_Or_just_a_hoax?

That was posted on July 7th, way before E3. It says the countdown ends on July 17th, the last day of E3. It doesn't anymore.

Or maybe I'm not reading enough into it. Whatever.
 
I think that radio station site has been shown to be a hoax.

People are saying the notice is legit since Microsoft "doesn't need any more big announcements" since Nintendo and Sony shit the bed. That makes zero sense to me, but stranger things have happened.

Then people are saying it's not legit because there is a "7" on it. Okay.


It's not like changing a major press announcement at the last minute has never happened before - witness the HD DVD press conference getting canned just a couple days before it was supposed to happen due to unforseen events. Maybe the same thing happened here. I find it hard to believe Bungie would set up all their usual wacky website nonsense to get people excited for this game, and then suddenly post a "Oh, sorry, not happening" message in Earth-speak as part of the game. I'm guessing this is legit and we won't see anything for a while. Hope I'm wrong.
 
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[quote name='SteveMcQ']There's a countdown...23 days to go until something....[/quote]
According to the page source, at the end of the countdown, it'll say "FinishMessage = "It is finally here!";"
 
Either this is the best internet marketing ploy ever or we're seeing an unprecedented event where a publisher (MS) has publicly pulled an unveiling of a game.

It's interesting either way.
 
[quote name='tokitoki50']Either this is the best internet marketing ploy ever or we're seeing an unprecedented event where a publisher (MS) has publicly pulled an unveiling of a game.

It's interesting either way.[/quote]
I really can't see Microsoft having pulled it at the last minute like that, but I do realize that it's possible. I'm REALLY hoping though that it's something like the ilovebees from Halo 2.
 
[quote name='YodaEXE']I really can't see Microsoft having pulled it at the last minute like that, but I do realize that it's possible. I'm REALLY hoping though that it's something like the ilovebees from Halo 2.[/quote]

So am I. Although it makes sense that MS might keep a few of their cards hidden after they (arguably) had the best E3 showing of the 3 consoles.
 
[quote name='Scorch']From the source of the page:

Out of the Ashes.. SOON!





google searches show that it is an actual legit radio station

the countdown javascript used was this

why would the sites be related? 101.9 FM is the broadcasting channel, FOX is the station owner..[/quote]

Does FOX make the Halo movie that was supposedly canned?

More images:

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Bungie Favorites

When the countdown timer was ticking away time until the announcement the Bungie Favorites banner within Halo 3 appeared corrupted and featured the Superintendent logo. Now, the Bungie Favorites image has been reset to a normal banner.
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Wasn't that picture in the free pictures and themes on 7/7 day?
 
Taken from Bungie's forums. Kudos to BugSquash42.

If you look closely (or zoom in) on the left side of the Bungie homepage, there's faint text along the vertical line. It changed between the original SI page and the new page with the message.

http://www.bungie.net/images/games/Reboot_homePage_03.jpg - The original image
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/Reboot_homePage_04.jpg - the new image

The original text reads (as far as I can tell) "D347h .4 N83L " or something like that. The new text appears to be a scrambled version of the original, with some of the letters backwards.

There is also a message along the right side of both images that reads "" similar to the one in the wallpapers.
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That could be important.
 
I knew it looked familiar.

This is definitely ILB2, which means some sort of Halo announcement, in my opinion.

Since I haven't played them - what are the chances of a prequel?
 
[quote name='Strell']I knew it looked familiar.

This is definitely ILB2, which means some sort of Halo announcement, in my opinion.

Since I haven't played them - what are the chances of a prequel?[/quote]

Well, the rumors were that Bungie was going to announce a Master Chief-less Halo game, which was more gritty and dark.

I don't know the complete history of Halo, but it is very well possible that the prequel is just Master Chief becoming Master Chief. I assume that the path of MC to becoming the world savior had to be gritty, and probably made him as detached as he is now.
 
Bungie......what are you up to now?!


I heard about ILB and everything, but never really quite got into the decoding part of it....can anyone run a short summary of what really went on at ILB.com?
 
[quote name='help1']My question is how do people find all these links and hints so fast? Damn.[/quote]
We have nothing better to do. Or at least I don't.
 
I'm pretty sure the Shmoo group is just a real group of people and has nothing to do with this. google some of the members and you'll find some references to shmoo from as far back as 2006.
 
Very interesting...:whistle2:k... but what does it mean???Softfish, the image on the map, it doesn't make sense but it gets your head thinking.:whistle2:k:whistle2:k
 
[quote name='tokitoki50']I'm pretty sure the Shmoo group is just a real group of people and has nothing to do with this. google some of the members and you'll find some references to shmoo from as far back as 2006.[/quote]
Yeah, I found that as well. Ah well, it was worth a shot. Gotta check everything, ya know?
 
[quote name='Wolve11']Bungie......what are you up to now?!


I heard about ILB and everything, but never really quite got into the decoding part of it....can anyone run a short summary of what really went on at ILB.com?[/QUOTE]

Basically (this is from memory, so I'm probably wrong), there was a link to "ilovebees.com" during some movie previews....maybe they were advertising Halo 2 in movie theatres before it was released (which has been known to happen).

Anyway, you went to the site and it looked ok at first, but then crazy shit would happen - strange popups, odd messages, garbled text, screwy pictures, etc. As if the entire website was breaking down from the inside.

Then more messages would appear that would trigger audio messages with strange names, like ....um... "longgirl" and such (one of them was something-girl). After a while, everyone found all of them and you could put together a sort of overarching story - a kid taking a girl out on a date, some friends talking, etc. Think Cloverfield, actually.

At some point, a bunch of coordinates showed up on the site, all linked out to payphones. It would say an axom went hot, and would give a time. You could go to the payphone and listen to some recordings, and if you gave the correct password, it would give you more data to enter in on the website.

Ultimately - this is where I don't remember much - the website devolved further and further into chaos, as if some AI had attached to it and wrecked it. Turns out it was Melissa, aka "The Operator," which was a sentient program entity that started communicating with players.

I don't really remember what happened after that. I think it gave coordinates again at some point and you could go and get some schwag or something. Ultimately it ended with a fairly touching message from Melissa about how we - the players - made her feel alive and stuff. I think it was revealed that she had travelled back in time and crashed into the ILB server, and originally was on one of the ships the Spartans commanded.

Feel free to correct me, anyone. There's probably a wiki for this too.
 
[quote name='help1']Do you guys think there is anything hidden in Cold Storage?[/quote]


Maybe, I am going to check it out. I haven't even played it since I downloaded it.
 
[quote name='help1']Do you guys think there is anything hidden in Cold Storage?[/quote]
Seems unlikely but I think I'll do a walkthrough of it and see.
 
[quote name='help1']
lightmapupdate.jpg

[/quote]Someone explain this map. Is that someone's edit or was that the image that showed up somewhere on Bungie with the zoomed in box and circle of a place in Africa?
 
[quote name='Strell']Basically (this is from memory, so I'm probably wrong), there was a link to "ilovebees.com" during some movie previews....maybe they were advertising Halo 2 in movie theatres before it was released (which has been known to happen).

Anyway, you went to the site and it looked ok at first, but then crazy shit would happen - strange popups, odd messages, garbled text, screwy pictures, etc. As if the entire website was breaking down from the inside.

Then more messages would appear that would trigger audio messages with strange names, like ....um... "longgirl" and such (one of them was something-girl). After a while, everyone found all of them and you could put together a sort of overarching story - a kid taking a girl out on a date, some friends talking, etc. Think Cloverfield, actually.

At some point, a bunch of coordinates showed up on the site, all linked out to payphones. It would say an axom went hot, and would give a time. You could go to the payphone and listen to some recordings, and if you gave the correct password, it would give you more data to enter in on the website.

Ultimately - this is where I don't remember much - the website devolved further and further into chaos, as if some AI had attached to it and wrecked it. Turns out it was Melissa, aka "The Operator," which was a sentient program entity that started communicating with players.

I don't really remember what happened after that. I think it gave coordinates again at some point and you could go and get some schwag or something. Ultimately it ended with a fairly touching message from Melissa about how we - the players - made her feel alive and stuff. I think it was revealed that she had travelled back in time and crashed into the ILB server, and originally was on one of the ships the Spartans commanded.

Feel free to correct me, anyone. There's probably a wiki for this too.[/quote]


Damn, thats some crazy shit.
 
Strell summarized it fine, but here's a couple of things I remember:

[quote name='Strell']Basically (this is from memory, so I'm probably wrong), there was a link to "ilovebees.com" during some movie previews....maybe they were advertising Halo 2 in movie theatres before it was released (which has been known to happen).[/QUOTE]

Yeah. The Halo 2 theatrical trailer - when they showed the Xbox logo at the end, for less than a second the usual "xbox.com" text scrambled underneath to change to "ilovebees.com."

At some point, a bunch of coordinates showed up on the site, all linked out to payphones. It would say an axom went hot, and would give a time. You could go to the payphone and listen to some recordings, and if you gave the correct password, it would give you more data to enter in on the website.
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I think if the correct password was given the axom went hot automatically, but other than that...yeah.

It wound up like Strell said with locations revealed... a select few of them actually let people play Halo 2 a few weeks early (at movie theaters, I believe), while the majority gave out promotional stuff....t-shirts, etc. usually at large shopping centers/malls.

*Edit* - Also, people who showed up at the events were given a DVD that had all of the audio clips and extra stuff from the Ilovebees game. It was obviously put up on torrents shortly after (with Bungie's blessing since they knew most people wouldn't be able to get it). I have a copy of it around here somewhere.


Normally I wouldn't care about that kind of stuff, but it was somewhat compelling. It got to the point where I was staring at the axoms updating all morning when it began and talking to a friend on the phone about heading out to the nearest payphone that would be getting the call, which was less than 5 miles away. Laziness won out, though.
 
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Oh yea. There were also a LOT of tiny meta-stories within all of the images and garbled text. One of them was this really odd fairytale type setting about a princess being trapped by her wicked stepmother. I think ultimately it paralleled the actions of what was going on in the site. I.e., Melissa was the princess, and when the princess tried to escape the castle, Melissa was sending out distress signals and crawler programs.

Really oddly compelling, actually.
 
[quote name='help1']Well, the rumors were that Bungie was going to announce a Master Chief-less Halo game, which was more gritty and dark.

I don't know the complete history of Halo, but it is very well possible that the prequel is just Master Chief becoming Master Chief. I assume that the path of MC to becoming the world savior had to be gritty, and probably made him as detached as he is now.[/QUOTE]

God I hate to admit this, but since I read a couple of the Halo books a few years back:

He was essentially "Master Chief" since he was a little kid. He was taken from his family at age 6 (I think) and put into a secret program with a bunch of other kids. There was a big battle on Planet Reach shortly before the events of Halo and all of the Spartans were apparently killed except for MC.

I wouldn't rule out a prequel if they really do announce something today (since Halo Wars is also set pre-Halo 1, I believe). I just don't think it'll be MC-centric.
 
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Same here, in my opinion, I think Halo 3 sucked. Halo Wars is pointless, especially cause it RTS and its not being made by Bungie. I just kinda think they are taking it a little far. But if they are doing another ilovebees kinda thing, it would be pretty cool.
 
[quote name='yukafls']Same here, in my opinion, I think Halo 3 sucked. Halo Wars is pointless, especially cause it RTS and its not being made by Bungie. I just kinda think they are taking it a little far. But if they are doing another ilovebees kinda thing, it would be pretty cool.[/QUOTE]

Kinda funny you say this. I seem to remember Halo starting out as an RTS.

Could be wrong on that.
 
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