Hey! Check this out!

[FuriousD]

Hey everyone, keep an eye on ilovebees.com in 4 days, that's when the countdown ends! (Er... It's when it seems to end.) Yeah, I'm gonna' say it's definately counting down to 4 days from now.

I'd keep watching it, you never know what'll happen! Harhar. C'mon Halo 2 demo or at least some kinda' cool thing... *Crosses fingers*

[warren]

shuttup, its a countdown to the oxm holiday gift guide

[FuriousD]

warren said:

shuttup, its a countdown to the oxm holiday gift guide

Well now, someone's amiable today. Sheesh.

[dynasty99]

it is a countdown to a oxm holiday gift guide with tons of exclusive halo 2 info and pics (mad amounts of it) and the same for other big name games

note: subscriber will not get it, you must get it off newsstands

[warren]

sorry, but anything about ilovebees pisses me off

[FuriousD]

Well now I'm just gonna' mention it more.

Bees.

I consider ilovebees a game in itself, so nyeh.

Ooo, I'll have to swing by and pick up a copy...

[FuriousD]

Ahaha! Warren, you were WRONG! *Acts like a complete jerk*

There was no OXM released that day, so there.

What it really was is a new addition to the entire ilovebees puzzle; this one involving... Payphones!

Various payphones were ringing at certain designated locations and time listed on the ilovebees links page. When two of them were correctly answered, it would 'go hot', and a wav file was accessible. The wav files are kinda' neat, it's basically just a bunch of people talking. My favorite character from the wav files is Jersey. ^_^

... One sound file remains, and the mystery continues. Oooh, freaky.

[warren]

It wasn't a normal issue of OXM, it was the annual holiday gift guide, now i don't know yet if it actually did release but when i posted previously that's when it was supposed to release. Now the phones, i don't know, it seems like it's all bungie's doing to try and get everyone super excited for halo 2

[FuriousD]

I heard that on August 24 of last year, the Holiday OXM came out. I never heard about this year's until you told me to shut up.

Bungie's apparently trying to keep us all busy with a super-freaky ARG, and doing a good job at it. Who knows? I might want to become an ARG hobbyist just because of that.

I found a video of a big group of the "Beekeepers" gathered around a payphone in a Cracker Barrel somewhere, and there was only one actual ARGer there, the rest were just Halo players. It was silly, because at the end the manager there, when asked what he thought of the mob of dorks flocking to the phone, said "Y'all got issues." Made me wonder how many ARGers there were heading to payphones in comparison with the Halo fans?

Jinkies.

And so, the mystery of ilovebees continues, and I'll be watching it like a hawk.

Even if it ends up being nothing more than an advertisement, it's the most kickass ad I've ever experienced.

[warren]

Augh! My brotheer got the holiday gift guide and there wasn't even any new info in it

[kerSHOT]

is the ilovebees thingy for the xbox or for the pc?

[warren]

what do you mean? It's just some weird ass web site that was in the halo 2 theatrical preview.

[BryseEayo]

This is backstory/sidestory to Halo on how the Convenant reached Earth, plus I think it's leading up to PAX. Tycho has gone pretty out of his way to advertise this and the first playable demo will be available there.

...and here I am stuck in Ottawa. Fsck

[FuriousD]

Ooo, awesome, another Penny-Arcade reader!

Yeah... I'm stuck in Pennsylvania... Blargh.

[BryseEayo]

Yep and my thoery failed miserably. I guess we won't entirely know until November 9th(?)