Mystery USB drive : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:22 pm

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/108/1081872p1.html

A bunch of gaming outlets were sent USB drives with no return address today. The only information on the drive appears to be a MP3 file with a cryptic audio message and a text document. Little help?

When viewing the audio file in Microsoft Word, these lines of code are revealed.

00000000 00000210 00000825 000000000037474B 00000000 0016FDA0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000TCON

A person on the audio file reads out the letters below:

MOD ZZZ JNQRYD3FRP

The separate word document also only has these six words posted.

Cryptography

Isotope

Philanthropy

Hydrogen

Ember

Rebirth

The postage stamp says it came from Maryland. Could this be from Bethesda as a tease for Fallout: New Vegas?

Update: Ok, wow, monster updates here. Joystiq was able to put together a lot of the clues.

The code MOD ZZZ JNQRYD3FRP is deciphered into the website http://www.gknova6.com/.

The recorded message found on the website can be deciphered using the Baconian Cipher into APRIL WEEK TWO. You can also mess around with the TV dial to see nuclear imagery,

So it looks like something is coming next week.

Think this has anything to do with vegas? That nova website is interesting, has lots of "nuclear" imagery, so that could mean new vegas or something completely else.

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:51 pm

Think this has anything to do with vegas? That nova website is interesting, has lots of "nuclear" imagery, so that could mean new vegas or something completely else.

Well, it could be that or nerdy terrorists based in Maryland threatening nuclear strikes against gaming outlets during the second week of April - and they only want smart cryptographers to survive.

Seriously though, the imagery on that site does smack of the simple retro graphical style of the Fallout series, and it wouldn't be the first time a Fallout game has been advertised using a TV on a website. I'll admit that if it is about New Vegas, I'm surprised. I really wasn't expecting any more information until E3 in a couple of months.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:20 am

That's terribly original - Who could have ever thought of something like that ?!

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:44 am

It would be awesome if it was related to New Vegas. I think we all want some info.

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:16 pm

Oh boy oh boy oh boy I hope this has to do with New Vegas!

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:51 am

When the picture fully loads, you can turn the nob round and i think you can see plans for vaults. SO its either got to do with some game to do with the cold war or the Fallout games. Or both.

Also, there's suppose to be an announcement next week. I heard this from The Escapsit.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:21 am

SIX NOV - Release date maybe?

Sounds like NV from the background sounds resembling slot machine noise

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:01 pm

Dammit! I can't stop listening to the nova site, it's making me go insane! THIS IS MADNESS.

It says APRIL WEEK TWO. What's going to happen? Did terrorists make this? :brokencomputer:

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:44 am

SIX NOV - Release date maybe?

Sounds like NV from the background sounds resembling slot machine noise

the audio on the site says NOVASIX

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:24 am

I like this , it's creepy .

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:15 am

Dammit! I can't stop listening to the nova site, it's making me go insane! THIS IS MADNESS.

It says APRIL WEEK TWO. What's going to happen? Did terrorists make this? :brokencomputer:

if it was terrorists i don't think they would have sent it to gaming outlets

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:31 am

One of the scenes at the end showed a TV with an image of John F. Kennedy in it, who was the President in the 60's. Is there any lore about him in the Fallout Universe?

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:45 pm

This is clearly a teaser for an announcement for Fallout: New Vegas. They are probably going to announce a release date for it next week. SIX NOV is probably the release date. Too easy Bethesda, too easy.

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:51 pm

Definitely looks Fallouty to me.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:23 am

if it is bethesda and obsidian then they certainly know how to tease people

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:55 am

If it's not Bethesda nor Obsidian, I am betting $5 that Skynet is coming self-aware.

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:40 pm

If it's not Bethesda nor Obsidian, I am betting $5 that Skynet is coming self-aware.

your on

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:32 am

If it's not Bethesda nor Obsidian, I am betting $5 that Skynet is coming self-aware.

OH SHI-

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:45 pm

If it's not Bethesda nor Obsidian, I am betting $5 that Skynet is coming self-aware.

I see your $5 , and raise you a turtle. :turtle: . You know you want it.

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:53 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_6

On Nov. 6:

1944 ? Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971 ? The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

Fallout? :celebration:

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:29 am

I see your $5 , and raise you a turtle. :turtle: . You know you want it.

wait week 2? doesn't that mean this week?

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:07 am

wait week 2? doesn't that mean this week?

Today is April 5 .....April 8-14 I think if I got my math right.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:01 am

I just love cryptic stuff like this. I'm so excited to see what it leads up to and I've no idea but I'll be trying to figure it out. I'll lay awake wondering and I'll get more and more out there with my ideas as I go and I'm most always wrong. Can't wait. :ahhh:

» Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:25 pm

Seems like Bethesda is trying to pull off a Valve.

» Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:32 am

lol after listening to the website for like half an hour its starting to seem funny.

Ellllllllll is PURPLeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEE.