Update 10/18/2016: After two months of inching forward, the Sombra-related countdown site hit 100 percent. And nothing big happened. People are now more fed up than ever.Read more…
Overwatch Players Are Sick Of The Sombra ARG [UPDATE]
Update 10/18/2016: After two months of inching forward, the Sombra-related countdown site hit 100 percent. And nothing big happened. People are now more fed up than ever.Read more…
Overwatch Fans Hacked Actual People In An Attempt To Find Sombra
The hunt for info on Overwatch’s next hero, a stealthy hacker named Sombra, has brought over 7,000 fans into Blizzard’s alternate reality game (ARG). But some bystanders have become unwilling participants in the ARG as well, as players hungry for Overwatch’s hacker have partaken in some hacking of their own.
Overwatch Fans Hacked Actual People In An Attempt To Find Sombra
The hunt for info on Overwatch’s next hero, a stealthy hacker named Sombra, has brought over 7,000 fans into Blizzard’s alternate reality game (ARG). But some bystanders have become unwilling participants in the ARG as well, as players hungry for Overwatch’s hacker have partaken in some hacking of their own.
The “Eye Sigil” Conspiracy Is Indie Games’ Most Arcane Mystery
“Dunno if I’m out of the loop, but what the hell is this?” Crypt of the NecroDancer player RireMakar asked on Reddit last May. In the main folder of the game’s SteamApp root directory, the data-miner unearthed a cryptic sigil, an iris embedded in the palm of a hand, which he posted online. A few hours later, Josh R. (aka MachMatic), bored, decided to look at the image’s code with a hex editor. In it were indications of another buried image, which he extracted: a few curving lines broken up by circles, with the edges clipped off, signaling that the image was not alone. It was a puzzle piece.