{"id":10347,"date":"2011-02-27T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"call-of-duty-website-hoax-solved-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10347-call-of-duty-website-hoax-solved-sort-of","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty website hoax solved (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the internets were all on the buzz about a mysterious new website – FindMakarov.com – that looked, for all intents and purposes, like some kind of alternate reality game promo for an as-yet unannounced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare title. It has glowy, interlaced neon green text and a countdown and everything. WHAT ELSE COULD IT POSSIBLY BE?<\/p>\n

After Activision confirmed that – actually! – they had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it, and calling it a “hoax”, speculation moved over to EA – was this another “Duty Calls”-type parody, possibly in anticipation of a Battlefield 3 demo at GDC this week?<\/p>\n

Nope. According to Geoff Keighley<\/a> – GTTV games journalist and presenter, WHOIS supersleuth – turns out it’s a teaser for some sort of “project inspired by Call of Duty” by Canadian indie “creative collective”, We Can Pretend. Apparently it’s “visually spectacular”.<\/p>\n

So, yeah. Inb4 Activision’s lawyers dispatching the good old “Cease & Desist”. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s pretty underwhelming, sorry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}