Splinter Cell Website Updated with Russian Content & GPS Co-Ordinates : Ubisoft Comments
by Reece Heywood - November 26, 2009
Comments (6)
If you haven’t noticed already, the Official Splinter Cell website has been updated with a message in Russian and the date 27th November.
The message looks to be an email which discusses something to do with a security system.
Details can be found after the jump.
- “27.11.09 – theme: Servicing the system”
- “Periodically security system will be disconnected for conducting of planned works and data protection. During similar works can arise the breach out of danger from the external threat. Thus, all turning offs will bear random nature in accordance with the random diagram Delta-3-6- Oscar”
The website also contains in the bottom right corner GPS co-ordinates, if you put in the digit’s the location it comes up with Sankt Peterburg aka Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 59.935903,30.321429
Hit the link to check out the site.
Update:
More information found, if you view the source of the page under the title tags is another message.
- <--
Th!s S!T3 hä¢KeD ߥ VL@d69
M3M0RY l3@K C0nfirm3d
c0nfID3N7i@L d@t@ c3r7ifi3d
Unix D@7@ f0ld3R Sc-hack/2009http://bit.ly/6M12tE
V0r0n v2.1.f
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Visting the link http://bit.ly/6M12tE will display a text file of the Russian logo.
Thanks Steven.
Update 2:
More info on the location below found by JimboXiii over at VG247.
- The Stroganov Palace (Russian: Строгановский дворец) is a Late Baroque palace at the intersection of the Moika River and Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The palace was built to Bartolomeo Rastrelli’s designs for Count Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov in 1753.
The interiors were remodeled by Andrey Voronikhin in the 1790s. Today, the palace is part of the Russian Museum and is used as an exhibition hall.
Update 3:
Just got an email from Ubisoft on this matter, heres what they had to say.
- We are receiving reports that some users visiting the www.splintercell.com website are finding themselves redirected to an unknown location. We are trying our best to resolve the situation, and will update as soon as possible.
In the meantime the Splinter Cell Conviction website is still available on the internal Ubisoft network at http://splintercell.uk.ubi.com/conviction“
By: Steviebdotnet
Also, if you check out the page source code, there is a notation:
By: Steviebdotnet
I have no idea why that didn’t show!
Try again:
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By: Steviebdotnet
Nah it doesn’t want to work, click edit, view source on the splintercell.com page instead
It links to: http://bit.ly/6M12tE
By: Reece Heywood
Cheers man, updated the post with the code and other link.
By: Steviebdotnet
I can’t decide if it’s clever marketing, or an actual Hack. A quick Google of the guys name doesn’t turn up much info. We’ll soon see I reckon!
By: Reece Heywood
Updated the post, Ubisoft have gave a statement.