'Commander' viral campaign continues blockily
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DATAUPLOADCOMPLETE1--WWW1COMMANDERVIDEO1C"
Yay! We've been made complicit in one of those ARG things! Or, at least, some PR person noticed we exist. The new data on commandervideo.com seems to consist only of the above image, "hidden" behind a tiny pink hyperlink. The image doesn't really give us much information that we can use, nor does its filename, J_BN_POMZ_B_NBO.jpg (which, as commenter Aaron points out, is "I AM ONLY A MAN" with all the letters shifted). The image does kind of look like it could relate to an abstract shooting game, we suppose, with a weird cubey ship flying over a weird cubey landscape.
We feel a bit like chumps for furthering this marketing campaign, but if there is a Wii game behind all this nonsense, we want to know about it, and the best way for that to happen is to review, and share, all the material we're given!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rocketboy @ Dec 30th 2008 3:45PM
You can't bother to tell me what you're advertising, I can't be bothered to care.
samfish @ Dec 30th 2008 3:47PM
Don't they understand yet that us Wii owners are FAR to cynical of third party games thanks to having been crapped on so much over the last 2+ years?
We shall all look at this viral marketing campaign and collectively scoff, "I wonder how much THIS game will end up sucking?"
take it to the X-bot fansite! They like this kind of crap and are given reason to hope!
Aaron @ Dec 30th 2008 4:08PM
maybe no one cares, but J_BN_POMZ_B_NBO.jpg is I_AM_ONLY_A_MAN shifting the letters up one.
JC Fletcher @ Dec 30th 2008 4:09PM
Ah! Thanks for solving that! Now that you say that, it seems obvious...
Mr Khan @ Dec 30th 2008 4:30PM
Kinda confirms this as a Wii game, unless it was a bot that planted it
KaBob799 @ Dec 30th 2008 4:49PM
That pic makes me think of 3d tetris
Feba @ Dec 30th 2008 6:18PM
*cough* And what happened with Wii BDSM?
Neo_Umbra @ Dec 30th 2008 8:19PM
Found a youtube profile
http://www.youtube.com/user/CommanderVideo
Has a link to an independent game company's site, Gaijin Games.
http://www.gaijingames.com/
Also, the youtube profile is from back in 2006 and has the phrase "I am only a man" on it. And the hometown is Earth, if that's of any interest.
DeoWulf @ Dec 30th 2008 8:58PM
Also, CommanderVideo is subscribed to Weird Al Yankovic's Youtube channel. ANOTHER CLUE???
Eon Shadow @ Dec 30th 2008 9:15PM
Probably not, but I have found that at the game site, on of their administrators is named CommanderVideo and that also on their staff is a man name Mike Roush who, if you check the original video on Vimeo, has favorited the video.
Charlie @ Dec 30th 2008 9:01PM
check his profile again, two things that caught my eye, his background, and his only video subscription-which happens to be the great weird al yankovic! any connections between a blocky game and a polka singer?....anyone?....
Eon Shadow @ Dec 30th 2008 9:16PM
I'm trying to, but it's taking forever to load for some odd reason.
Eon Shadow @ Dec 30th 2008 10:51PM
Yes, the image used for his background is very intriguing. It looks somewhat like it is related to the pink box used for the hyperlink to the picture on the site.
ChrisCanberg @ Dec 30th 2008 11:13PM
Something tells me that its about Area 51.
Not like the actual place but just how governments covered it up that some form of alternate life landed on the earth. Thats what I think it at least has something to do with.
Eon Shadow @ Dec 31st 2008 12:49PM
New picture up.
http://www.commandervideo.com/images/COMMANDERVIDEO.jpg
Except that's not the original picture. How I know, I'll never tell :P
Chem @ Jan 1st 2009 11:07PM
Because the original has spaces?
Eon Shadow @ Jan 1st 2009 11:23PM
Yea, and has lower case
Chem @ Jan 1st 2009 11:29PM
Yeah, saw that.
Guykid @ Jan 3rd 2009 8:29AM
New link up, this one is an mp3 of a level!