'Commander' viral campaign continues blockily

by JC Fletcher { Dec 30th 2008 at 3:35PM }

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We just received a totally mysterious comment on our first post about the "Who is the Commander" viral marketing campaign, which is purportedly linked to some upcoming Wii game. The comment, from "CommanderVideo," read:

"00DATACOMPILED11
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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!

Tags: the-commander, viral-marketing

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?

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.

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.