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[kevinmhk]

I am guessing that the site description of "2010 7 13" (mentioned by Yamato) and the countdown to July 14th, 2010 (also mentioned by Yamato) are the current expected release date of the game the ARG is supposedly promoting.

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Wikipedia's article on Haze indeed has a lot of information about Mantel Global Industries... so I don't think that's related to Interdimensionalgames...

[Rogi Ocnorb]

There's a full menu now.
Complete with RSS subscription and forum links.
It seems like if you access the site by first going through www.projectb6.com everything works after the redirect.

[FractalP]

Ah, yes, I just discovered projectb6.com. After reading through everything on the navigation bar at the top, the blog and about Haze on Wikipedia, I'm a bit doubtful that this has anything to do with Haze unless it's a sequel of some kind.

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Hehe, just found this before I posted. So the new game is called Intellectual Property, or is that just some bizarre capitalization?

[Rogi Ocnorb]

So, we've got a specious (read buggy) flash with links to lots of existing IP (I think "Intellectual Property" is just the description of the game, not the title) and some borrowed videos on the blog. I must be overlooking the rabbithole link

[FractalP]

Okay, so ProjectB6 is an episodic series of some kind. This looks to be quite interesting, if a little... odd.

This is taken from the forum:
"We wanted to make our corporate web-site interesting, useful and even educational in it's own right, rather than it being just another neat looking conveyor of corporate information. We intend to continue adding, improving, and refining this idea of visualizing our home from the distance of the moon's orbit."

So from what I can tell, and I'm probably wrong here, the flash isn't related to any viral/ARG at first glance. However, the rabbit hole of a sort was the 'anomaly' which led us to the computer terminal whatchamacallit, and then the blog. I expect that could be a tie in with whatever ProjectB6 turns out to be.

[sublimetime]

Some more info...

[Brave777]

[Yamato]

[JBlaze]

An understanding of Intellectual Property suggests great consequence for using already Trademarked Intellectual Property. The whole purpose of IP is to prevent other entities from using your ideas.

This 'game' interdimensionalgames, is very well funded. They have put very much time and effort in to making this experience very 'flashy'.

If this 'game' is not directly related to the game Haze then the creators of this game have no understanding of intellectual property and are treading on very thin water with the lawyers for Haze.

I find it very hard to believe that a project with an apparent budget as this one would risk having it all come down just because they used the term Mantel Global Industries. Mantel Global Industries is intellectual property of the Haze game. Why wouldnt the creators of this game just simply come up with another name for the corporation if they are not related?

Seems pretty silly to me to put tons of resources in to building a really nice website, just so it can be destroyed extremely easily by some lawyer that see's that they used Mantel Global Industries and wants to sue them....All sounds way to risky if all thats needed to avoid such a situation is to change a name....

Come on, the purpose of intellectual property is to prevent others from using your terms or ideas. Do you really think that these game developers, given their references to intellectual property would completely disregard this and use the name Mantel Global Industries, knowing that all it would take for the site to get taken down would be for some Haze lawyer to see it? no.

Mantel Global Industries is the Intellectual Property of whoever is behind Haze. Interdimensionl Games is not some amateur developed game, obviously. Do you think they are completely disregarding the Intellectual Property rights of Haze? Not likely.

[kevinmhk]

I have re-visited the abnormaly (but this time it doesn't need me to finish the "puzzle" and launch directly to the desktop) and read those 2 blog files again.

I could only find "Global Industries" in the second file, but not "Mantel Global Industries".

[JBlaze]

My browser may be messed up a bit, I am no longer able to get the moon event. I do acknowledge that it could just say Global Industries. Sure, it would make me seem like an ass if thats the case. I will accept that. It has been a rough couple days that have all run together without any sleep. My mind has been everywhere all at once, trying to do way too many things and getting caught up in way too much at once.

I apologize if my ranting has been based on my misunderstanding, this junky computer I am forced to work with right now has limited capabilities and the cookies are configured correctly but I cant get in to read the Blog entries to see if the damn thing says Mantel or not. I need to quit basing my speculations of things on drunken research done at 4 in the morning.

I appreciate that I may have based everything that I said on my own misunderstanding and even got excited about it.Seemed like an asshole........silly me..

[E.Y.E. Spy]

[Bartock]

NM as per Dante's post below.

BTW am I the only one that hasn't been able to get the anomoly or to get to the windows screen yet?

[danteIL]

Um, that's your own IP address showing up there.

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[catherwood]

another factor is the size of the flash file(s) involved. My computer takes a while to download the various pieces as the site changes, and then continues to run very sluggish and slow. As with most of these cutting-edge games, it helps to have a fast processor, lots of free memory, lots of disk space, and a browser set for a maximum cache space.