In Real Life

This morning visitors to Lionhead Studio’s webpage were greeted with the iconic visage of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.

Under the black and white image is a single quote from Guevara:

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.”
Che Guevara (1928 – 1967)

Visitors have to click on either a thumbs up or a thumbs down to continue to the main page.

Clicking on the thumbs up brings visitors to a page that includes the word “followers” in the HTML and features not only Che’s picture but two bullet-riddled scrolls partially rolled down the sides of the page. There are also tiny insects fluttering about.

Clicking on the thumbs down brings visitors to a similar page with “subjects” in the HTML. The scrolls are a different colour, there are no bullet holes, and the insects are replaced with what seems to be bits of floating dust.

The page also has a faded, hard to notice, number six stamped next to Che’s head. In six days, Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux will be speaking at a Microsoft Game Studio press conference to help kick off GamesCom in Cologne.

I think it’s fair to say we can expect some news. But what will it be?

[Lionhead Studios]