GKNOVA6: Viral Site For Unknown Video Game Discovered – Fallout or Call of Duty?

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UPDATE 4/9/2010: Transmission #2 – https://movieviral.com/2010/04/09/gknova6-website-updates-new-codes-what-game/
A new website for an unknown video game has been discovered by IGN and Joystiq, after they received a package from somewhere in Maryland. The site plays a video, which you can watch after the jump. Initial rumors suggest that this site, www.gknova6.com, is related to an upcoming Bethesda release – Fallout: New Vegas. But not so fast, it may be for an upcoming Activision video game – Call of Duty 7 (rumored to be called “Black Ops”). What is clear? Well, the site includes multiple references to the Cold War, including photographs of John F. Kennedy delivering a speech about the Cuban Missile Crisis. But we’ll speculate about which title this is really for after the jump.

Members of the Unfiction forums have found something interesting that points this towards Call of Duty 7. The website includes a Google Analytics number that has been used exclusively by Activision for many other websites. Even though that’s the case, we have to look at the possibilities, and it’s quite possible Activision hired an outside company to run their websites and now Bethesda has hired that same company to run this website. The latter is less likely, so we’ll call it in favor of Call of Duty.

1-0 in favor of Call of Duty.

However as the Joystiq post says, the envelope is from Maryland – and Bethesday is based in Maryland, but so is the company the domain was registered to: MarkMonitor. That could mean Activision is doing their dirty work through that company, but that’s unlikely.  In addition, some members at the GiantBomb forums pointed out that the site was found using a Caesar cipher, and the plot of Fallout: New Vegas includes a slaver group called “Caesar’s Legion.” These two aren’t as solid as the Google Analytics number, so lets tie it up.

1-1, all tied up.

Now for the swing vote. The package sent to IGN and Joystiq was also sent to multiple high-profile Call of Duty fans, including WePlayCOD who tweeted “Just received a mysterious USB drive in the #WPC mailbox with what seems to be a cryptic audio transmission. Possible #CoD7 clue?” In our opinion, that is the straw that broke the camels back. Why would Bethesda be sending Fallout package to Call of Duty fans? I guess you could throw out a hypothetical situation, but we’re pretty sure this is for Call of Duty 7. Not to mention the Fallout storyline wouldn’t include the Kennedy presidency. We’ll know for sure within a week, because a code in the video translated to “APRIL WEEK TWO”. Oh, and:

2-1, Call of Duty takes it.

This is really just our opinion – and it’s still being debated by many gaming fans, so this is by no means confirmed. The content of the site (at least the content we know of) doesn’t suggest what video game it’s for, so there is no way to be sure. We’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest and make sure you let us know what you think, leave a comment below.

UPDATE: A third, and extremely likely alternative has been pointed out by Dane in the comments. It’s possible, as he suggests, that this is for the upcoming game Singularity. A quick Wikipedia read on the game says it’s based around the Cold War and involves a nuclear incident occurring on an isolated island, so the connection to John Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis makes sense. And get this, it’s being published by Activision. If you read his comments, he also suggests the red lights on the TV read R – A – I – S, which would be another reference to the game, but I can’t really confirm that. So, I’ll put it at 1-2-1 in favor of Call of Duty, but this definitely tightens up the race. The only real beef I have with this newest guess is the fact it was sent to Call of Duty fans. So, I guess we’ll have to wait and see what this site is really about.

UPDATE #2: You can now count Fallout: New Vegas out. On the official Bethesda website forum, an administrator Bethesda’s community manager posted the following message: “Whatever this is seems cool, but it doesn’t relate to our games.” So, Fallout is out of the race, and that leaves either Singularity or Call of Duty. We’ll take the latter by a 2-1 count in favor of Call of Duty. Time will once again be the decider.

Sources: GiantBomb forums | Unfiction forums | Joystiq.com | Sage from the MovieViral.com Forum

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  2. The baseball is showing the minimum size that a Uranium core has to be in order to go “critical”

  4. Shouldn’t the first point, with the google analytics code go to singularity as well, since the entire point was that it was Activision publishing it, not Bethesda? That would tie it up completely.

  5. The post was made before Singularity was even brought up, so I didn’t include it. I assume users reading this would get that, much like you did. I still call it for CoD because of where the packages were sent.

  6. You’ve got a point, but I personally can’t help but to dismiss that. If they’re ‘big-name’ CoD fans, that means they have a lot of pull, and marketing power in they’re own right. If activision is looking to really push this, it might not be a bad idea to get it’s biggest fans (or: the few people who might not hate the company yet) on board.

    Either way, I’m very interested to see how it goes, because whichever game it’s for, they did a great job with it.

  7. Let me help you out a bit. I received the thumb drive and my site is a die hard cod series waw/zombie fan site. We were at the 1st to play map pack 3 event. People considered Community VIP as far as JD_2020 is concerned all received the usb drive including WePlayCod, Cod Zombies, and WTG… Which btw were all present at the mp3 1st to play and I didnt even list all the people who received it that were there as well. My only connection to Raven was Nathan the former Community Manager who was let go after the release of Wolfenstein. I am not currently in contact with anyone @Raven working on Singularity… Here is my article and video of my envelope. Its 99.99% Treyarch’s doing!

    http://www.wethegamerz.com/forum/content.php?116-Not-so-Mysterious-anymore-Thumbdrive-P

  8. the thing in the beginning of the video shows a bunch of electrons moving around a nucleus. i think thats infinity wards logo.

  9. The bottom right red light looks like it may say something in Morse code. Is this what Dane was talking about when he said the red lights spelled R-A-I-S (Revert, Age, Impulse, Stasis)? Everything in the video seems to do have do with nuclear weapons. I agree with kt about the baseball and stadium and not that the game has anything to do with Yankees stadium being blown up as many other sites have suggested. Also, the two isotopes of Uranium shown, U-235 and U-238, are the isotopes used in the making of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively (for anyone who didn’t know).

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  12. You also have to take into consideration that Vietnam was during the Cold War as well.

    The Vietnam War was from 1959 to 1975 or so. JFK was also the president during the time and Richard Nixon threatened to Nuke Vietnam. It’s extremely possible it can take place during Vietnam AND the Cold War. It’s possible that it can be linked to another game but it’s unlikely of Activision to not hype up Treyarchs’ next installment in the franchise.

    @ Bruno, I heard something about Nov but heard nothing of a date.

  13. On the http://www.joystiq.com forum, BluLotusArtGuy wrote yesterday a very interesting idea which no one else really picked up.

    “Richard Wright wrote a book called ‘The Outsider’… That doesn’t seem relevant at all until you then take a look at the stamp on the envelope. Southern Maryland is also the same area as Washington DC; the setting of the game “The Outsider”.

    Also… All the information is on the Outside of the package.
    And, the TBA date on the game on most web sites has changed to 2010.

    Then again, i doubt the publisher would use the United States Postal Service in their advertising…But actually. It is a Julius Caesar quote. He was betrayed, just like the story goes in The Outsider.
    The whole game is about secret organizations. The game is about the character accused of assassinating the president (Caesar again).”

  14. I think it makes a lot more sense for this arg to be for Singularity and not CoD 7. For people saying it could be CoD because the Cold war partly took place at the same time as Vietnam that could be a possibility, but why would they only have pictures of things pertaining to atomic weapons and nothing about Vietnam? I think that if the blinking red light in the lower right does actually say R-A-I-S, this arg is 100% for Singularity and not CoD. Anyone care to try to translate the light?

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