Summary
Intergalactic: Heretic Prophetwas one ofThe Game Awards' biggest, most surprising reveals. The latest game from Naughty Dog sees the company step away from the more groundedThe Last of UsandUnchartedseries for the first time since 2007, launching a brand-new space-based IP.
The five-minute trailer is packed to the rafters with Easter eggs, includinghints about the cast, apossible 2027 launch date, anda sword that has audio wavelengths, but one small QR code has the community stumped.
Intergalactic: Heretic Prophet’s Mysterious QR Code
Initially shared by an Intergalactic: Heretic Prophet fan account onTwitter, a hidden QR code in the game’sreveal trailerhas community theories running wild.
Seen in the top corner of a newspaper at 1:26, this tiny QR code reportedly reveals a string of numbers— most commonly 66260600410, but also allegedly 66260700410. These 11 numbers have already started to vibrate through the community, sparking speculation as to what they could mean.
One theorysuggests that the first four numbers serve to sneakily reveal the game’s release date as July 22, 2025. It’s a clever thought, but it doesn’t explain the other seven numbers behind it in the sequence. It also directly contradicts the previous clues that suggest the game may be released in 2027.
Another fanmapped out the coordinateson the Earth’s map, landing in a spot in the Norwegian Sea, somewhere between Norway and Iceland. While interesting, no further links between this location and the game have been made.
Arguably, themost plausible suggestionis that the string of numbers relates toPlanck’s constant, a theory from within quantum mechanics that has the value 6.626070. It’s a physical constant that goes way over my head, but one I’m reliably informed by social media is related to space. If this theory is correct, it’s suggested the QR code could just be a small Easter egg for the physics nerds out there.
Whatever the outcome, it’s another part of the trailer that has served to build hype, and we’ll update you should any more solid theories come to light.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
Intergalactic: The Heretic Propher follows Jordan A. Mun, a dangerous bounty hunter who ends up stranded on Sempiria – a distant planet whose communication with the outside universe went dark hundreds of years ago. In fact, anyone who’s flown to it hoping to unravel its mysterious past was never heard from again. Jordan will have to use all her skills and wits if she hopes to be the first person in over 600 years to leave its orbit.
