You can watch the new trailer HERE right click and save as on the link just under the Wndows Media box.

Watch the end of it very carefully. The www.xbox.com switches to www.ilovebees.com for a just a second and then switches back.

The I Love Bees site is crazy!

so I love bees site is fake with Halo crap pissed all over it?

Some kind of strange marketing tool, check out this thread at the bungie forums.

I already posted the trailer but that bees thing is weird... that on the front page a countdown ot halo 2 maybe?

The people on the Bungie forum seem to be quite into conspiracies I think from their replies to the Ilovebees thing

Not trying to steal your thunder on this one.

Just wanted to make a seperate thread to see what the people on the board thought about the I love bees stuff.

no not at all, didn't mean it like that. I'm glad you brought this up as i didn't know about it

This appears to be the work of the people who did The Mystery of Evan Chan (the promo for the A.I. movie.) That was an incredible experience. In fact, it had very little to do with the movie - and the story concluded several weeks after the film opened. The story behind it is one of the best I've experienced, in any medium.

So I heartily encourage everyone to jump on board and start reading.

- David Stein

from ilovebees.com
3 days 15 hours till what?

One anagram-inspired translation I read said a Halo 2 demo is supposed to be released that day.

I just read about this and now I'm really buimmed that I missed out on it. Grrr.

I just got a black box with text over the regular website with this:

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HALT - MODULE CORE HEMORRHAGE

Control has been yielded to the
SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX.

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

PHASE 1 COMPLETE: Network throttling has eroded.

PHASE 2 COMPLETE: This medium has metastasized.

COUNTDOWN TO WIDE AWAKE AND PHYSICAL:

Make your decisions accordingly.
--------------------------

check out the GPS locations here.

http://ilovebees.com/links.html

And input the coordinates here:

http://boulter.com/gps/

I'm guessing these are locations for the Halo2 demo? Probably mentioned in that long thread that was linked up above but I'm not about to go through 608 pages to find out.

Flay is right.

Unfortunately, Frank O'Conner of Bungie has flat out stated in one of his weekly updates from a few weeks back that there will definitely not be a Halo 2 demo released prior to November 9th. This is due to the fact that Bungie's sole focus is on getting the game done in time for launch. Apparently, they just don't have the time to do one at the moment. It was a nice theory though...

Damn, that is cool.

One of the GPS coordinates is right by me. I guess I'll have to go check it out at 1:14pm on Tuesday.

Is there a fully converted list of locations available? I'd hate to have to sort through that entire thing.

Good question. We're calling it "Axon Day," because this mysterious AI program posted the coordinates and times with only the following message: "Axons go hot!"

Should be interesting. We've debated a lot about what may happen, but no one really has any idea. The people in this fictional story have implied that it will be something "very, very big."

- David Stein

Spiffy! I didn't know you guys would be interested in playing.

Well, if you want to hop on board - now is the perfect time. But you should do some reading this weekend to understand where we are, how we got here, and the significance (as best we can tell) of this mysterious event next Tuesday.

Some links:

First, spend some time catching up. Read this very detailed summary.

Then, go explore the current ILoveBees.com site for a while (note: creepy wav files embedded.) And see Dana's weblog (it's also part of the game.)

Finally, come visit the UnFiction Forums's set of forums for this game (dubbed "the haunted apiary.")
Yep, here is a mapping of GPS coordinates to (rough) locations. The street numbers of the addresses are probably inaccurate, but should give you an idea of the general area.

Be sure to read up about the game before Tuesday - otherwise, you might not understand whatever happens at those coords on that day.

- David Stein

Check out www.ilovebeer.org I found this site while reading a web blog for Dana.

Has anyone attempted to log into hotmail or gmail with ladybee777? WHen I attemped to reset the password for the gmail account here is the security question it asked me.
1 ?
I have no idea.

the plot thickens...

Thanks for the links, just started catching up on everything that has happened.