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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Comments (110)

  3. The trailer looks like it has mutants and whatnot from an atomic fallout. It seems to revolve heavily around Russia; specifically Russia after a nuclear fallout (if the Cold War had ended badly). Singularity looks like it has everything to do with atomic weapons and the Cold War, which is what gknova6 is all about.

  4. I don’t think singularity has to do with “what if -“, I believe this is a COD gimmick

  5. Could someone please tell me what the whole baseball thing is about? i cant tie it to anything

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

  7. I’m not really sure what it’s for. On one hand, I don’t think it’d be for Singularity this late in the game…I mean, it comes out in June, and usually these kind of things come quite a few month’s in advance, not just two month’s in advance. Then on the other hand, it really seems like everything in the video could have to do with Singularity, and this just doesn’t really make me personally think of COD.

    However, it was sent to some of the top COD fans and crap apparently, and COD also has a while until it releases so this would be the perfect time for a viral video.

    Me thinks I have no idea what it is for…

  9. gknova6.com has been updated….it has the person saying differnt letters and numbers

  10. I think this speculation is interesting, however I think we are looking through a limited scope as to what this video could be about. From what I can understand the video mentioned the second week of April. So what happened in the second week of April as far as games are concerned? Nothing. What happened as far as the entire world that could possibly be related to this video? The video primarily showed images of a Cold War era America. In the second week of April the two super powers of the Cold War signed a treaty promising to no longer make nuclear arms. Is it possible in any way that this is not merely a coincidence? Is it possible in any way that these two items are possibly connected? That is the question.

  11. I have been following this from the start and have seen a trend of nearly everything that is in plain site to contain keys to finding more information. I believe there are a few things that are in front of our faces that have not been used yet.
    I have researched each but have not found new information which will help:

    1. Per gigior’s post, the photo on the TV at gknova6.com originated here http://www.life.com/image/50582048

    Given that it is so in our faces there has to be something hidden here other then the possible time line of the game.

    It was taken by Ralph Crane on October 22, 1962.

    The main thing that springs to mind is that the photo is watermarked with LIFE on the website. If the game was Singularity wouldn’t it be marked TIME MAGAZINE or similar?

    Searching the photographer from above comes up with a movie made in
    1947 called The Begining or the end here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1317767/

  12. Forgot to add that if you go to buy the photo at this site http://www.qoop.com/photobooks/framed_prints/layout.php you can zoom in and manipulate the image a little.

    All that realy stood out for me was the lady in the bottom right corner with the white hat and dark glasses and the baby on the bottom left…

    Also wondering if it was only broadcast on one channel or many…

  13. There is a statue near the CIA headquarters found in the waypoints.

    It is called Kryptos and it contains, you guessed it, a code! According to wikipedia it is “one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world”.

    Find it here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos

    The wiki page contains way too much information for one post…
    There we get who made the sculpture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sanborn

    When it was dedicated Nov 3, 1990

    When the sculpter made the statue he also placed a bunch of other items on the grounds of CIA headquaters like a copper slab with morse code on it.

    A group dedicated to decrypting the message hidden in the sculpture can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sanborn I think they would find our codes easy…

    Also interesting, The sculpter made similar peices titled “Antipodes” – which has a lot to do with places on earth as detailed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes,

    Another titled “Cyrillic Projector” which includes text in Russian and some of the code found in the sculpture on the CIA grounds…

  14. never know… could be some well humored terrorists bout to commit nuclear holocaust… noone would expect somethin that was sent to video game people

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