User blog comment:JakePT/Mass Effect 3 to be Revealed at VGA Awards?/@comment-1691295-20101121135356

Sony Russia has deleted their Mass Effect 3 tweet, which is no surprise, but it's no obvious whether it's because they jumped the gun, or because they were wrong.

However, since then they have posted a weird hint: "6#66 66#6 #666 #222 6#66 66#6 5#55 55#5 4#44 2#22 666# 444# #999 22#2 #222 #666 15/29"

I have no idea what that is, or how to translate it, so I did a Twitter search for @ replies directed at PlaystationRU. I found several Russian tweets that replied with the translation. I popped those tweets into Google translate and found that they were referring to an address in Strastnoy Boulevard, Russia.

Doing some Google searching in English and Russian, which is a pain since I don't know Russian, I found that that address is the location of the 'Gagarin Estate'.

"At the end of the boulevard at its junction with Petrovka there is a magnificent palace in the classical style (No. 15/29). It was built in the late 18th century for the Gagarin Princes."

This isn't Yuri Gagarin, but I do find it very interesting given that a previous clue lead to 'Vostok', which was the program that put that Gagarin in space.

This is all very obscure, but I'm guessing Russians, the target audience for the tweet, would have had an easier time than I did, even if they didn't have as much time to waste as me.

If this is related to the BioWare hints, then it suggests they have information on the game and calling it Mass Effect 3, before deleting the tweet, probably wasn't a mistake, and they may indeed know that it is ME3.

Whatever the hint may be, it doesn't really help, since it doesn't get us much closer to the identity of the game.