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Slumberil: Matrix Online ARG?

January 5, 2005

The highly anticipated game The Matrix Online is scheduled to be released this spring. Beta testers of the game noticed a billboard advertising a sleep-aid product called Slumberil, and subsequently discovered slumberil.com.

Call us jaded, but we've gotten our hopes up before, hoping that a game-related site is an ARG trailhead, but then being disappointed to find out that it's merely an atmospheric site, nothing more (as in recent game-related sites for the Myst and Grand Theft Auto series'). Nevertheless, a little digging reveals a juicy login page, a mailing list signup, and mysterious emails from someone named pandora.

The fact that there's a spring release of Matrix Online increases the likelihood that this will turn into ARG goodness, but we'll have to wait and see for now.

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