Game Companies Receive Mysterious Flash Drive
A mystery USB drive has appeared on the doorstep of game-related companies and star players.
Reports are surfacing that mysterious USB flash drives are appearing on the doorsteps of game-related companies and various high-profile gamers. Joystiq was one of the recipients, and reveals what could be either a devious mind with nothing else better to do, a rather costly version of product promotion, or a little of both.
At first appearance, the mystery USB drive caused an alarm: it arrived in an unmarked envelope. The drive itself offered nothing save for one audio file and one simple text file containing the words Cryptography, Isotope, Philanthropy, Hydrogen, Ember, and Rebirth. Weird. Later the recipient figured out that the sender as spelling Cipher, pulling the first letter of each word.
Joystiq said that the audio file offered electronic voices and a sequence of letters and numbers read by a female voice: M O D [sound of 3 chimes] Z Z Z J N Q R Y D 3 F R P. A male voice added more, saying "What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."
"Don't believe everything you see," the male voice added.
Eventually Joystiq followed the clues and was lead to this strange website. It's believed that the entire puzzle is hinting to an impending announcement for Call of Duty in the second week of April.
Still, check out Joystiq's progression and see what you make of the mysterious USB device! What would be funny is that all the hard work deciphering the clues would eventually lead to an elite account with FinallyFast.com.
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It's Cloverfield 2!!
anyone clicked on that website link yet?
Looks like Duke Nukem made it to production finally.. Look at the first symbols on the screen. They are radiation symbols sheer genius.
I wish i received free flash drives in the mail....
Foolish me clicked on the link. My Firefox hangs.
its fall out new vegas
retarded site, don't waste your time
That was totally weird!
Over a 3.0 MB DSL connection averaging 1.6 MB it took a couple of minutes for this to load up. Once it loaded, it was like a B&W image of an old TV set with some other device on top of it. It starts out with a fuzzy picture which resolves into a baseball field, then there's other pictures that you see includes uranium and enriched uranium side by side with their elemental numbers under them. Another scene appears to show President Kennedy with other politicians around him. The whole time there is this voice in the background reciting what was described as being on the audio file from the flash drive, except the alpha, numeric sequence appears to be different.
Like I said, entirely weird!
Clicked on the link... Very strange.
Domain Name: GKNOVA6.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Name Server: NS1.HOSTMONSTER.COM
Name Server: NS2.HOSTMONSTER.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 26-mar-2010
Creation Date: 23-mar-2010
Expiration Date: 23-mar-2012
I love it when game companies do this
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Also the Stamp on the package is of Richard Wright:
http://stamps.about.com/od/buyings [...] rative.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author)
Obey My Dog!
Also the the seal on the stamp is from Southern Maryland, the only game company I could find on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_ [...] _companies is Bethesda Softworks, Rockville, Maryland.
My best guess is a new Fallout game, seeing how on the TV screen from http://www.gknova6.com/ the picture sometimes shows pictures of nukes.
Also the the seal on the stamp is from Southern Maryland, the only game company I could find on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_ [...] _companies is Bethesda Softworks, Rockville, Maryland.My best guess is a new Fallout game, seeing how on the TV screen from http://www.gknova6.com/ the picture sometimes shows pictures of nukes.
I TOTALLY thought the same thing. First thing that came to mind was Fallout 4...
I tried to mail a package without a return address and the post office would NOT let me do this. They were probably personally delivered.
Fallout 4 you think? Sweeet. What a great idea for a marketing campaign. Cheap, yet gets the point across in a unique way.
Gotta be Fallout. The website reminds me of the UVB-76 broadcast.
See thats how you build exitment and hype!! and something cool for your game not just get a ART book!!!
But Fallout:New Vegas would be cool or something cept under a big shroud....
and if it is crappy COD news maybe it will be for dedicated servers and better gameplay... with free maps for pc
Another point to make that this is about Fallout: New Vegas is the word choice for the acronym, CIPHER.
They better hope they know where it's coming from before they just start plugging in those flash drives. It could be loaded with something nasty. I remember hearing not to long ago about how in China they were giving high profile businessmen free flash drives as so called "gifts" but little did they know that once they used the drive it would allowing them to get whatever they needed from them.
They better hope they know where it's coming from before they just start plugging in those flash drives. It could be loaded with something nasty. I remember hearing not to long ago about how in China they were giving high profile businessmen free flash drives as so called "gifts" but little did they know that once they used the drive it would allowing them to get whatever they needed from them.
And that, my friend, is why God invented Linux.
damn that page it's freaky!
guys i think the blinking light is morse code .... can someone check it out
the site is weird. try to stare at the blue thingy and you'll start thinking its shrinking.
Sounds like Fallout for sure its been what 2 years since fallout3 sounds about right! New Call Of Duty is pending! Doesn't matter wont play anything for a while BFBC2 is the *%#$ don't even want to think about anything else right now!
the site is weird. try to stare at the blue thingy and you'll start thinking its shrinking.
uhm...it sort of is. Did you close the page too early?
This is the data I got from listening all the way through
1st line spoken: "men have sought to make a world of their own conception to draw from their own mind all the material which they (employ)"
Male/Female voice back and forth spelling this out. Spaces were put in where there were pauses. :
mod novas is novasixnovasixnovasixnovasixnova hell is purple
If you look up Hell is Purple on Google, it takes you to purplehell.com, a "one stop shop for riddle tools and resources".
The page provides cipher tools to decrypt messages. So I imagine the answer lies there. Good luck.
Yea, gotta be fallout. The pictures on the TV are that of how an atomic bomb works roughly.