What the hell? Microsoft's Origen site turned out to be little more than a lame contest for a trip to check out Xbox 360's launch event in the U.S.

To make things worse, the website is designed like a bad acid trip, featuring talking bunnies, a lame Jon Brion copycat doing the music and clunky use of Flash. You'd think after all of these months of barely updating a site, drawing tons of speculation and hype from all over the Internet, Microsoft would've at least been able to make this Origen site somewhat functional.

In order to win attendance to the launch event, you have to take a test on the site. It's there somewhere, just poke around through enough bunnies and you'll find it. This is the worst Cadbury Creme Egg commercial ever.

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