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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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    #251  Edited By AaronReynolds

    From what I've read, the only thing I can think of is that it's an alternate reality game, hypothesizing what would've happened if the cuban missle crisis actually started a nuclear war instead of ending in a compromise.

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    #252  Edited By deadmonkeys

    About three seconds after I listened to the clip, fire alarms went off in the dormitories.
    It ended up being a drill/false alarm, but was still kinda freaky.

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    #253  Edited By Sogeman
    @pbhawks45 said:
    " @twentyTWO: HOLY SHIT DOOD I DIDN'T SEE THAT. "
    lol, was the first thing I saw
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    #254  Edited By Rebirth1337

    Well I know I'm late but I don't know if someone posted this yet. The GKNOVA6 site has a part of the MP3 that says "Hell is purple" when entered into google you get this website 
    http://www.purplehell.com/ the site is all about riddle solving the first thing I read on the site was 
    "Welcome to Purple Hell - Our aim is to be the No.1 resource for online riddle solving tools."
    If some on already found this sorry it wasn't to hard to find anyway.

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    #255  Edited By weegieanawrench

    HOLY FUCK. This is so weird. Also, found something cool. When you hop on gknova6.com you can tune the image!  Turn the knob on the right side of the television. It makes everything a lot clearer, and this seems to point to Fallout New Vegas. Awesome.

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    #256  Edited By Binman88

    Oh it's Fallout related? Kinda a letdown for me :(

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    #257  Edited By weegieanawrench

    There's an image of a baseball diamond, and the next one shows what seems to be an atomic explosion occuring within the diamond. Anyone know what that might mean?

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    #258  Edited By Rebirth1337
    @weegieanawrench said:
    " HOLY FUCK. This is so weird. Also, found something cool. When you hop on gknova6.com you can tune the image! It makes everything a lot clearer, and this seems to point to Fallout New Vegas. Awesome. "
    I did figure it was already know. My bad I can't sit on my ass all day.
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    #259  Edited By AaronReynolds
    @Binman88 said:
    " Oh it's Fallout related? Kinda a letdown for me :( "
    Same. Maybe it's promoting something awesome that happens in Vegas.
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    #260  Edited By Battsey

    This is obviously Giant Bomb: The Game

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    #261  Edited By Cross_Marian

    There is some sort of blinking light at the bottom-right of the TV. This could be some sort of Morse Code. I don' know how to read the Code but if anyone else out there can this could be an important clue.    

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    #262  Edited By august

    If this isn't Fallout: New Vegas then someone is making a game that looks a whole hell of a lot like Fallout.

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    #263  Edited By Jedted

    Oh god, this too much!  That mp3 sounds like some kind of alien transmition. 
     
    I think i'm gonna go with the Fallout: NV theory cause that seems the most plausible. 
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    #264  Edited By pegasuswinks

     Has anyone tried to write down the letters from gknova6? I don't have the fast hands but perhaps someone can try to write down the letters in two lines, one for the female voice and the other for the male voice and see if something can be obtained from that.    

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    #265  Edited By Leoplureodon

    Maybe the trumpet plays chords that spell something?

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    #266  Edited By nmcclana

    gknova6.com has a javascript include for Google Analytics (account  UA-6621671).  This account is also used on the following sites:
     www.bakugan-videogame.com  (UA-6621671-19)
    www.herohq.com (UA-6621671-2)
    www.thride.com (UA-6621671-16)
    www.truecrime.com (UA-6621671-26)
    www.uncaged.com (UA-6621671-2)
     
    All games / sites associated to Activision, so I suspect the promotion has something to do with one of their games.

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    #267  Edited By Supermarius
    @nmcclana: an activision game? Well that would be a bummer. Bethesda self-publishes now so it couldnt be fallout realted then.
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    #268  Edited By nmcclana
    @Supermarius:  It might also just be a marketing agency that activision uses.  They could do marketing for another company, too. 
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    #269  Edited By Supermarius
    @nmcclana: a pr firm that makes args must be weird.
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    #270  Edited By munnyman5
    @Tuggah said:
    " This is so for Madden 2011. "
    OF COURSE! A very astute observation!
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    #271  Edited By Chirag4

    This has to be Persona 5 .
     
    It definitely cannot be anything else.

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    #272  Edited By JonathanMoore

    Well that was definitely strange to the ears.

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    #273  Edited By digital_sin

    Dunno if someone figured this out yet, but the audio on the site says "Hell is purple", which points to www.purplehell.com which is a riddle solving site. Welcome to Purple Hell, your one stop shop for riddle tools and resources.

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    #274  Edited By Jensonb

    No Caption Provided
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    #275  Edited By DjTann3r

    the blinking light has nothing to do with morse code. it is in a loop, but not in morse code. probably just for looks.

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    #276  Edited By emkeighcameron

    New Vegas yaaaaaay

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    #277  Edited By ch3burashka

    I was hoping for a video of this :(

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    #278  Edited By ShaunassNZ

    Joystiq is on this too.

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    #279  Edited By ShaunassNZ
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    #280  Edited By pwnasaurus

    damn giantbomb ur teh smarts nice work guys.
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    #281  Edited By hellowill89

    Hey I think everyone is WRONG! It sooooo clearly is COD7 Zombies. Just think about it.
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    #282  Edited By killroycantkill

    Using some of the comments ideas and listening to the audio in the website, I believe that "Hell is Purple" is hinting at Baconian Cipher or Purple Hell. This site is an automatci Baconian Cipher  http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/bacon.htm. Though I didn't find or hear any 5 letter increments of A or B, but maybe if you do something with the letters in the MP3 file to make them into A's and B's then something could be done with it.

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    #283  Edited By randiolo

    its got Fallout new Vegas all  over  it.. spinning nucleus, uranium bomb, JFK & Cuban missile crisis.. has to be 

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    #284  Edited By zzzleepy

      If it's Activision, couldn't it be an "Alternate Reality" game for COD by Treyarch? Would make sense, then they could muck about with any crazy scenario they'd like if the Cuban missile crisis actually went sour. Could make a rather cool setting for an almost Contemporary Conflict game, one might say.

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    #285  Edited By iamthemoneyj

    I can tell just by the sound of the radio whine that it's new vegas

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    #286  Edited By tehvanillabear

    How this could be anything other than Fallout: New Vegas amazes me.
    Although it could all just seem too good, we saw nearly all of this in Fallout 3 (the bomb etc.)
    It does seem quite odd though that they would be all mysterious about a game that has already been announced. If this is for New Vegas, I would've loved to have seen this months ago, creating a huge amount of hype.
     
    Oh and by the way, another thing saying it is for New Vegas, what is one of Brad's most played games lately, if not most played? Fallout 3.
     
    Case closed.

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    #287  Edited By ma_rc_01

    Finally Science Papa 2!

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    #288  Edited By frootsnax
    There is one other thing guys, we know the address came out of maryland (I live about 45 minutes from bethesda's offices) and bethesda is publishing a post apocalyptic game from ID called RAGE. If anyone was going to put out promotional material, what better publisher would you pick of yours to do a post apocalyptic game than bethesda? The stuff came out of maryland, but the people making new vegas are out in california. All of this NV hype could be a red herring,
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    #289  Edited By Bilawal

    Fallout Vegas isn't big enough to have this type of marketing, considering it's going to be an expansion. If it is then this is a disappointment. 

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    @nmcclana said:
    " gknova6.com has a javascript include for Google Analytics (account  UA-6621671).  This account is also used on the following sites:  www.bakugan-videogame.com  (UA-6621671-19)www.herohq.com (UA-6621671-2)www.thride.com (UA-6621671-16)www.truecrime.com (UA-6621671-26)www.uncaged.com (UA-6621671-2)  All games / sites associated to Activision, so I suspect the promotion has something to do with one of their games. "
    If this actually has to do with activision then I think is the new Treyarc COD game, cold war probably, or maybe alternate history cold war 
    This stuff is way awesome btw, great work guys
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    #291  Edited By spaceturtle

     Treyarc aint bright enough for ARGs like this, damn it!

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    #292  Edited By GrumpyTheDorf
    @Bilawal: The company is saying New Vegas is a brand new, full retail game
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    #293  Edited By DystopiaX
    @randiolo said:
    " its got Fallout new Vegas all  over  it.. spinning nucleus, uranium bomb, JFK & Cuban missile crisis.. has to be  "
    fallout runs on an alternate timeline that diverged after WWII. No JFK OR Cuban missile crisis since it was the Chinese that we had the cold war with, not the russians.
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    #294  Edited By DystopiaX
    @SPACETURTLE said:
    "  Treyarc aint bright enough for ARGs like this, damn it! "
    Treyarch has nothing to do with it. Activision covers the marketing as a publisher so this would be on them. 
    CoD7 Cold War spec ops team seems actually really plausible. That or it's some previously unheard of nuclear apocalypse game, since they're so popular now.
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    #295  Edited By spaceturtle
    @DystopiaX said:
    " @SPACETURTLE said:
    "  Treyarc aint bright enough for ARGs like this, damn it! "
    Treyarch has nothing to do with it. Activision covers the marketing as a publisher so this would be on them. CoD7 Cold War spec ops team seems actually really plausible. That or it's some previously unheard of nuclear apocalypse game, since they're so popular now. "
    Activision ain't bright enough for ARGs like this, damn it!
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    #296  Edited By Th3_James

    LOL, I just finished making a ceasar cipher program for my computer science class. LMFAO thats too funny

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    #297  Edited By Skytylz
    @SPACETURTLE said:
    " @DystopiaX said:
    " @SPACETURTLE said:
    "  Treyarc aint bright enough for ARGs like this, damn it! "
    Treyarch has nothing to do with it. Activision covers the marketing as a publisher so this would be on them. CoD7 Cold War spec ops team seems actually really plausible. That or it's some previously unheard of nuclear apocalypse game, since they're so popular now. "
    Activision ain't bright enough for ARGs like this, damn it! "
    What's with the Treyarch hate?
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    #298  Edited By DystopiaX
    @Skytylz said:
    " @SPACETURTLE said:
    " @DystopiaX said:
    " @SPACETURTLE said:
    "  Treyarc aint bright enough for ARGs like this, damn it! "
    Treyarch has nothing to do with it. Activision covers the marketing as a publisher so this would be on them. CoD7 Cold War spec ops team seems actually really plausible. That or it's some previously unheard of nuclear apocalypse game, since they're so popular now. "
    Activision ain't bright enough for ARGs like this, damn it! "
    What's with the Treyarch hate? "
    and yet they have the best selling franchise ever...hmmm
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    #300  Edited By MistaSparkle

    I didn't solve anything cuz im not smart enough but after reading all the stuff about people trying to decode everything, I am extremely interested. Especially if what Joystiq is hinting at is true. ;)

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