The obscure Xbox 360 Origin "viral" bunny rabbit/bonzai countdown ended just as I'm writing this (and many were still hoping that it will culminate in the announcement of Halo 3.) These types of "what the hell is going on?" virals have been deployed by Microsoft since the first Xbox You can explore them, zoom into them, decode them to find marketing dressed up as secrets, brilliant. For anyone hoping this would be the big Halo 3 announcement, they might be slightly dissapoint. Halo 3 might be in there somewhere but I don't really have the time to figure it out.

This one is particularily strange. The cute music, fluffy rabbits and just plain odd video footage makes those old David LynchPlaystation 2 ads look normal. Origen seems to be some kind of place. There's a competition of sorts (click on the fruit) to win a "place at Origen" where you'll be asked three fact or fiction questions about the Xbox. It's effective, if somewhat disturbing. There's seems to be something in that video, I'll let someone else figure it out. What a surprise, Cyprus isn't on the list of countries...