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[umdesch4]

[TRAILHEAD?]thereisnolist.ca from Canadian Videogame Awards

[catherwood]

OK, i might as well document what is there for now:

[CapnZ]

The letters around the circle are:

onlythdadsthgvdpgssdcthdtdstnowfotothdfgmdrtdst.bg

ETA: __6mh-8gfvk-x_g_3-4d4dk-_kc7_ this looks like a redeem code for a video game just missing some letters

[CarnageBlack]

[duke9509]

Just looked up the .m2ts file format.
it is a: BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream
Translation: that file should be a video. Now the only question is as to whether it should actually be there and the PM(s) has/have made a mistake, or if the link is supposed to be broken for right now.

ETA: further reading shows that is a format most commonly used on blu-ray disks.

[umdesch4]

For that letter string, Decrypto 8.5 ( http://www.blisstonia.com/software/WebDecrypto/index.php ), comes up with some interesting strings, some of which include "the best have passed the test", and variations on "now go to the game?test.??"

Maybe this is some kind of thing where a company (EA maybe?) is trying to recruit game testers?

[CapnZ]

If the string of letters is a website it might end in .ca

[CarnageBlack]

I've tried:
Gametest.ca
Gamertest.ca
thegamertest.ca
Nada, I'll try more but I dunno. Could be nothing more yet.

[umdesch4]

[Zobot257]

I think this bears watching...

[CarnageBlack]

[duke9509]

When you said the site was registered with GoDaddy, I checked out "BlueHost" (thinking: GoDaddy does hosting, why would you register with one service and host on another), but it seemed legit.

I also tried replacing the .mt2s with .html .htm .xml .php and without an extension, but I got nothing but more 404s.

[thebruce]

it does seem to be a specific sentence, and my best solution is

only the best have passed the test now go to thegamertest.ca

(though the URL isn't definitive)
Only some letters are bumped down by one, and the A's are coded as G's, which is odd.

or, visually, the difference between two would be:

[umdesch4]

Yup, that seems like the most likely solution. I have a feeling they just weren't ready for people solving it in less than 12 hours from launch. I don't even know how many people were paying enough attention at the awards to write down/remember that URL, and since I haven't seen what was aired from it on G4 (on Sunday, apparently), I don't know if that would have gotten any further distribution to start with. I certainly haven't seen any other mention of this besides what I've posted about it online.

By the way, in case this is a recruitment tool for some gaming company or something, I might point out that the awards sponsors are all listed here:

http://www.canadianvideogameawards.com/sponsors/

Cheers!

[girlwhoruledtheworld]

On the website thereisnolist.ca, there's a new post today:

*enerate *uery: PSN Online Status
Status: Dark **apter closed
Deviate from norm. Commence P*oject Ar*ham

I'm guessing this is do with Project Arkham, the new Batman game? Playstation was a major awards sponsor at the event.