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    Alternate realities are worlds that exists next to, in parallel of, or in place of our own.

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    #51  Edited By crusader8463

    Sweet! Giant Bomb gets its first serial killer! I cant wait to see how this turns out!

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    #52  Edited By Skrattybones

    huh. what the hell is the video that plays on gknova.com? Is that anything?
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    #53  Edited By iToastage_FM

    well no other news outlet has had this, the twitters are not abuzz, so this is probably GB specific, I guess 

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    #54  Edited By pbhawks45

    GJNOVA3.COM?

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    #55  Edited By Skrattybones

    So, according to google cache the website gknova.com was first cached on 27 Feb 2010 20:55:21 GMT , and hasn't changed.
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    #56  Edited By Masonvd

    First letters of all words in the Readme spell Cipher. Does that mean anything to anyone?

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    #57  Edited By KowalskiManDown

    "What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."
     
    That's a quote from Julius Caesar.

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    #58  Edited By vinny
    @Darktoad450 said:

    " First letters of all words in the Readme spell Cipher. Does that mean anything to anyone? "

    I'm thinking maybe you have to run 
    gknova or gjnova through that cipher somehow. 6 letters 6 cipher words. maybe the 3 is the third game in the series? Something 3?
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    #59  Edited By alternate
    @iToastage_FM said:

    " well no other news outlet has had this, the twitters are not abuzz, so this is probably GB specific, I guess  "

     
     http://www.gamezone.com/news/04_05_10_01_59PM.htm 
     
    This site says it was postmarked Maryland so Bethesda/Fallout seems like a good guess.
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    #60  Edited By Skrattybones
    @Darktoad450: 
     
    Only that we added it to the Caesar quote and ran the string of crap we came up with through a caesarian shift cipher.
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    #61  Edited By taemun

    $ wget -S http://gknova.com/  
    ...... 
    Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:23:39 GMT  
    ..... 
     
    I don't think thats the website we want. 
     
    As far as I can tell, gjnova3.com doesn't exist (isn't registered).  

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    #62  Edited By Masonvd
    @Vinny: Have you tried looking anagrams of the words in the read me's? 
     
    I don't know what a chiper is myself, I just noticed that the words spelled it.
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    #63  Edited By Skrattybones

    Yeah, I dunno though. That website video is ridiculous. And there are cubes! Cuuubes.
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    #64  Edited By Daryl

    Hey this isn't a video. 

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    #65  Edited By dhuff

    The prominence of the cube in the video on  http://gknova.com/ makes me think this is Portal 2. 

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    #66  Edited By buzz_killington

    New Assassin's Creed????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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    #67  Edited By guts450

    I don't know jack about web code but somebody should go through it on the gknova site to see if they can find anything interesting

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    #68  Edited By Anthal

    I also got www.gjnova3.com (doesn't exist). Assuming the 3 is telling us to move each char over by 3, and can safely be removed, you get gjnova.com. That does not exist, either.  The domains aren't even registered.
     
    The first 3 letters also translate to jla - Command and Conquer?

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    #69  Edited By Skrattybones

    I checked the source, guts. There isn't anything interesting as far as I can tell. It's really barebones. There's literally just enough done to host that flash animation.
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    #70  Edited By Masonvd

    "Solution for any problem" 
     
    Portal 2 stuff maybe? 
      
    The website seems to be in Engrish too. 
     
    Maybe it's some new Russian game? Metro 2034?

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    #71  Edited By EasyPeasey

    z to w ceasarian shit gave me: JLAWWWGKNOVA3COM. so Justice league game?

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    #72  Edited By aurahack

    No clue, but Cipher reminds me of Ace Combat for whatever reason. So new Ace Combat plz.

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    #73  Edited By Mr_E_Mann

    It looks like the URL you want is http://www.gknova6.com/

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    #74  Edited By Skrattybones

    Yeah, the JLA threw me off when I did it too. Justice League is where my head went.
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    #75  Edited By guts450
    @Skrattybones:  yeah i just browsed through it too, nothing jumped out, though after watching the video again it looks like text cycles in the intro part, any way of reading that?
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    #76  Edited By dhuff
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    #77  Edited By alternate

    I don't think it is gknova - that domain is registered with bluehost, not typical of a big business or PR firm.
     
    I bet whoever owns gknova is going to have a heart attack when he sees his traffic spike inexplicably :D

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    #78  Edited By lockwoodx
    @Skrattybones said:
    " @Darktoad450:  Only that we added it to the Caesar quote and ran the string of crap we came up with through a caesarian shift cipher. "
    The Caesar quote has me thinking Fallout3 New Vegas. The main bad guys built their base out of Caesar's Palace and run a slave trade. Could be a distress signal of some sort.
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    #79  Edited By Skrattybones

    Why is GameZone saying their envelope came from Maryland? Where did the GiantBomb one come from?
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    #80  Edited By pbhawks45
    @dhuff: WE GOT EM!!!
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    #81  Edited By Tasus
    @Mr_E_Mann said:

    " It looks like the URL you want is http://www.gknova6.com/ "

    Yup, that's the stuff. ( http://www.gknova6.com)
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    #82  Edited By twentyTWO

     Cryptography


    Isotope


    Philanthropy


    Hydrogen


    Ember


    Rebirth  
     
    First letters of each of the words spells CIPHER. 

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    #83  Edited By jeffk38uk

    Clearly this is for the upcoming announcement of Deadly Premonitions 2.

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    #84  Edited By pbhawks45
    @twentyTWO: HOLY SHIT DOOD I DIDN'T SEE THAT.
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    #85  Edited By wordfalling
    @dhuff: huh, the flash file on that site is called "station.swf"
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    #86  Edited By dhuff
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    #87  Edited By aurahack

    So, it links to gknova6.com, of which there is a tiny computer with a voice that reads " N O V A ", then another voice that reads "S I X" until it loops back to the first voice. 
      
    I'm starting to think a new Rainbow Six?

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    #88  Edited By sorryawkward

    is this the computer that is running New Vegas or something?

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    #89  Edited By the_dudefather

    letters on website:
     
    novas
    ixnov
    asixn
    ovasi
    xnova

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    #90  Edited By Ronin147

    I noticed a baseball stadium in that video if that means anyuthing to anyone and there seems to be alot more letters being read off
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    #91  Edited By EasyPeasey

    NOVASIX? and was that nixon?

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    #92  Edited By vinny
    @Mr_E_Mann:  HA, crap, move the 3 as well! so close! nicely done.
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    #93  Edited By taemun
    @Mr_E_Mann said:

    " It looks like the URL you want is http://www.gknova6.com/ "

    DING 
     
    WHOIS: 
     Creation Date: 23-mar-2010     
    HTTP: 
      Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:36:51 GMT
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    #94  Edited By Skrattybones

    GUYS, DO THE GKNOVa6.com url
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    #95  Edited By Zoidoid

    There may be something to the way the two voices trade off. Also, Hell is Purple.

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    #96  Edited By guts450

    pictures of uranium 238 and 235, that's the bomb material type uranium I believe, I'm a little rusty on my manhattan project

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    #97  Edited By EasyPeasey
    @Zoidoid: yea i heard that too it really threw me off. google search took me to purplehell.com, a site about riddles apparently 
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    #98  Edited By Anthal

    Best I can tell it's: 
     
    mod / movas / ixnov / asixn / ovasi / xnova / sixno / vasix / novas / ixnov / asixn / ovasi / xnova  
     
    Some of those n's may be m's, some of the v's may be d/b's 
     
    Using the same 3 letter crypto is garbage, I think the initial mod is part of the key. 
     
    Before it loops, a voice says "hell is purple" 

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    #99  Edited By aurahack
    @Ronin147: There's also a nuclear atom so that probably doesn't mean much :/ 
     
    Unless it's the return of MLB Slugfest and the players are radioactively super-powered.
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    #100  Edited By Skrattybones

    Does the video mean anything? I think it's a visual representation of.. the acronym?

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