Someone Sent Us a Mysterious Package

[dbmountain]

Treyarch did lots of puzzle-y type stuff with Nazi Zombies, maybe they are at it again with this year's CoD.

 

[The Shade]

Exciting! I'm almost as excited as I was with the WhatsInTheBox viral video!

Here's hoping it IS something to do with New Vegas, though its development has hardly been secretive thus far.

Maybe an entirely new IP?

 

[meowman]

Personally, I think this is some sad nerd with too much time on his hands deciding it would be fun to spend 2 weeks devising a pseudo-da vinci code to mess with some people's heads as an April Fools joke. I mean, has anyone ever heard of a video game company (or any company, for that matter) doing this?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98776-Crazy-Valve-ARG-Teases-Portal-2-Update

http://portalwiki.net/

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1170872

Hmm... I stand corrected. Still, I'll keep under my bed, just to be on the safe side.

 

[meowman]

Also, what's it say at the end? "Hell is returning?" Definitely "Hell is __", though I can't get the last word/s.

Or 'Hell is Coming'? Yep, I think we're looking at the apocalypse here.

 

[Andronicus]

Sooo...
Definitely not a Dante's Inferno marketing scheme, then?

EDIT: Gah, damned ninjas! I do shake my fist in your general direction! *shakes fist in general direction of ninjas*

 

[bigolbear]

Just looked at that gknova page.. who put acid in my coffee... cmon, own up!

I recon its fallout for what its worth, or something new.

 

[Shycte]

Have to go with the popular choice of Fallout.

 

[newbienator]

I would say Fallout as well, judging by the references to uranium.

Then again the next Call Of Duty is suppose to be in Nam, and with the various Cold War references in the TV, including what seemed to be a conference and Kennedy's face on a tv set, it may just be a rather clever advert.

Alternatively we could just get Yahtzee to smash it and see what happens.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Fallout.

Or another Bethesda published game. They are doing a lot of publishing lately...

 

[New Frontiersman]

You guys went to an obscene amount of effort to find the answers to this "puzzle" as did Joystick. I think if it were me I would have thrown it away after not figuring out what the first set of letters meant.

Good going guys.

 

[Mukil]

Found this lurking on the net:

The audio message on the website simply spells out "Nova Six" over and over, but some of the letters are spoken by a male, whereas other are spoken by a female. Bacon's method of steganography is used to hide messages within plain sight, usually with different type faces. We assumed that the male and female voices offered a similar method of obfuscation, and converted each male letter to "A" and each female letter to "B."

At the very end, a voice utters, "Hell is purple." Et voila: Purple Hell offers an automatic converter for the "Baconian Cipher." After plugging in our converted string of letters, we received this confirmation:

"APRIL WEEK TWO."

Events April 8th in the timeline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_8

1974 ? Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, surpassing Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record. The record-breaking shot is hit off of Al Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers into the left field bullpen at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

There is a baseball in the above video and stadium... coincidence?

 

[BigbadaBEEF]

okay i'm not quite as intelligent as my fellow escapists, but to me it doesn't look like it could be anything but Fallout, it just seems very much in that style

 

[OddOzZy666]

I'm going with New Vegas. Think about it, Bethesda locked the thread on their forum within minutes, this elevates suspicion in my eyes anyway. Also, the image looks very Fallout.

The words got me thinking. Isotope-Nuclear isotope
Hydrogen-Hydrogen bombs
Ember-The World burning from The Great War
Rebirth-The Resurrection of The Enclave.

I may have the entirely wrong idea but it must make an ounce of sense right?

 

[Pandora92]

Personally, I think this is some sad nerd with too much time on his hands deciding it would be fun to spend 2 weeks devising a pseudo-da vinci code to mess with some people's heads as an April Fools joke. I mean, has anyone ever heard of a video game company (or any company, for that matter) doing this?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98776-Crazy-Valve-ARG-Teases-Portal-2-Update

http://portalwiki.net/

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1170872

Hmm... I stand corrected. Still, I'll keep under my bed, just to be on the safe side.

Sounds like a good plan. ^^

 

[Svenparty]

Darn it's obviously to do with Call of Duty or Infinity Ward then.....I guess that means no teaser site for Fallout:New Vegas

Hmmm it still might be viewing all the nuclear imagery.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Im going to take 2 guesses, and i dont know why the 2nd one to tell the truth, COD, and Condemed, i dont know why, i just have a feeling.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

GamesRadar just got this [http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/pc/news/help-us-guess-the-game-on-the-mystery-memory-stick/a-20100408105837468011/g-2006032219817514003#comment_content]. You all got a LOT further than them.

I helped 'em out by linking here.

 

[Callumca]

Found this lurking on the net:

The audio message on the website simply spells out "Nova Six" over and over, but some of the letters are spoken by a male, whereas other are spoken by a female. Bacon's method of steganography is used to hide messages within plain sight, usually with different type faces. We assumed that the male and female voices offered a similar method of obfuscation, and converted each male letter to "A" and each female letter to "B."

At the very end, a voice utters, "Hell is purple." Et voila: Purple Hell offers an automatic converter for the "Baconian Cipher." After plugging in our converted string of letters, we received this confirmation:

"APRIL WEEK TWO."

Events April 8th in the timeline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_8

1974 ? Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, surpassing Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record. The record-breaking shot is hit off of Al Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers into the left field bullpen at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

There is a baseball in the above video and stadium... coincidence?

I believe there on to something there because if you follow that lead and look at the year you can see a number of events or ongoing events such as the Cold war,and multitude of bombings and crashes that occured and if we follow it even futher and look at what occured in the cold war during this time we find some interesting information. "Between 1972 and 1974, the two sides also agreed to strengthen their economic ties, including agreements for increased trade. As a result of their meetings, détente would replace the hostility of the Cold War and the two countries would live mutually." What ever this is it's probally going to be a series of missions which lead to closer relations between the two powers(atleast for a few years).Which side you play for however I don't know.

(Yay first post!)

 

[skimm]

i think it is a new resident evil or a remake of resident evil 2 or 3. it has been rumored before that they wanted to remake a classic in the style of play and judging by the video it looks to be cells combining.