Game Companies Receive Mysterious Flash Drive

[triddle]

So, I didn't go to Joystiq to learn this was solved. Now, I am officially an ass But at least I was on the right track on my own, sigh....wasted time wasted time.

 

[triddle]

Looks to me like it is pretty certain this is a Singularity promo. From the communist ties in Richard Wright, to the references to an island in Francis Bacons "New Atlantis" it all falls into place.

 

[archange]

[citation][nom]carlhenry[/nom]the site is weird. try to stare at the blue thingy and you'll start thinking its shrinking.[/citation]

Maybe that's because IT IS FREAKING SHRINKING!!! xD

Wait for it to load entirely - OMG.

 

[bobsnail]

link loaded almost instantly on my IE8... In the beginning it looks a bit like infinity ward logo on the tv... But it probally is fallout.. who cares anyway lol Anywone who hasnt seen it yet.. its really not worth it.. just a Flash 10 animation of a TV with a oscillisopce on top and lots of static and letters that no doubt someone wold like us to spend hours 'decrypting' so that we can advertise the game

 

[Xenophage]

If you turn the dial on the T.V. the picture clears up.

 

[christop]

strange website..

 

[zak_mckraken]

Now that's advertising! Cheap, clever, efficient. I'm too busy (lazy) to figure it all out by myself, but it indeed looks like a new Fallout game.

 

[Guest]

If you TURN THE DIAL on the TV, you can see the animation clearly... And it shows a Uranium atom being struck by fissionable material, the type of chemical reaction NEEDED to create ATOMIC FISSION / FUSSION (atom bomb)...

Quite creepy. Then it shows a stadium being blown up by an atomic explosion, then planet Earth...

This is horrifying! LOL. Hope that helped someone.

 

[americanritual]

gotta be fallout. Nuke going off in the baseball field is nutso.

 

[gm0n3y]

Awesome marketing. I really hope its fallout. I was disappointed with Fallout 3 and have been anxiously awaiting a 4th installment.

 

[banthracis]

It's not fallout, confirmed by Bethesda... yesterday. Slow Kevin slow >.<

Is Rockville, MD really apart of southern Maryland??

Whatever this is seems cool, but it doesn't relate to our games.

http/forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1085588-mystery-usb-drive/page__st__80

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]banthracis[/nom]It's not fallout, confirmed by Bethesda... yesterday. Slow Kevin slow[/citation]

Boourns.

 

[Zinosys]

Hmm.. The animation is about (surprise!) creating a nuclear weapon (and releasing it in a ... baseball field?). The beginning is an animation of Fission (splitting the atom, causing a chain reaction and a massive release of energy). I also remember seeing U-238 vs U-235. U235 is fissionable, whereas U-238 is not. I suppose I could decompile the flash file and see what it's all about. I could also hijack the audio and clean it up, making it easier to understand. Fallout, that would be nice. Although Duke Nukem would be a funny surprise.

 

[Zinosys]

Whoa, whoa, wait. If there was a separate audio file on the flash drive, then it might be a subtraction/addition cipher. Convert the letters to numbers (a=1, b=2), or perhaps something else. Then line them up and subtract. That might yield something interesting.

 

[Djhg2000]

Half-life of Uranium is 703,800,000 years according to wikipedia.
Add together all the numbers and you get 18.
Half of that is 9.
In binary that is 101001111100110010001011000000.
Add those together and you get 13.

Long shot but maybe Monday 13 of September?
Could be a release date.

 

[necronic]

[citation][nom]djhg2000[/nom]Half-life of Uranium is 703,800,000 years according to wikipedia.Add together all the numbers and you get 18.Half of that is 9.In binary that is 101001111100110010001011000000.Add those together and you get 13.Long shot but maybe Monday 13 of September?Could be a release date.[/citation]

That's sounds like it is straight out of the "mystery of the urinal deuce"

 

[karenskym]

[citation][nom]djhg2000[/nom]Half-life of Uranium is 703,800,000 years according to wikipedia.Add together all the numbers and you get 18.Half of that is 9.In binary that is 101001111100110010001011000000.Add those together and you get 13.Long shot but maybe Monday 13 of September?Could be a release date.[/citation]

and 13 related to friday the 13th.. 13.. 13... TGI Fridays!

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Creepy... it keeps spelling out "sixnova".

[citation][nom]triddle[/nom]This is the data I got from listening all the way through1st 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.[/citation]

I tried they're tools... and so far I've gotten "A N B O Y L E Q 3 R W P" out of using them... i'm too confused.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Figured out I needed to use the Baconian cipher, boy was "A" girl was "B" and eventually came up with "April Week Two"