The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Author Charlie Higson is launching an alternate reality game which involves reading both on and offline
PS3 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Filed under: Community We've been trying to keep you as up to date with the Resistance 2 ARG as possible, but those of you who are new to the whole thing may still be understandably confused. Infinite Bits has a great article about how the ARG (Alternate Reality Game) has gone so far and how that links in to both Resistance 1 and its sequel. Sure, there's some conjecture involved, but it sounds pretty...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Photo: Getty Images Maybe! According to an interview in the L.A. Times , Vulture buddy (and Nine Inch Nails front man) Trent Reznor recently took a meeting with HBO to pitch them a TV show based on the alternate-reality game he created for his 2007 album Year Zero . "It went great ," says Trent, who isn't typically known for irrational optimism. "Will it happen? I don't know. It was fun sitting and...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Spinner.com : Nine Inch Nails' recent conceptual effort 'Year Zero,' which has already spawned an Alternate Reality Game, may be joining the likes of 'The Sopranos,' 'Six Feet Under,' 'Sex and the City' and 'The Wire.' Trent Reznor tells the L.A. Times that the... Read more
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] As the players of The Lost Ring watch the Beijing Olympics, they'll see more than the rest of us. They've been playing an Alternate Reality Game, creating new significance for events and locations in the real world. Companies are interested...
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Between the giant banners advertising the D-9 alternate reality game (ARG) with anti-alien slogans, beyond the Dharma Initiative recruitment booth, there was a little stack of postcards at Comic-Con... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
mondomedeusah électronique (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Alternate reality games, vampires, zombies, and mutant pigs. And that's just in the first 2 minutes! We've also got a new FUca bulary lesson and...
Millions of Us (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Mockumentaries are, in their own way, a genre of the virtual worlds and alternate reality games that we specialize in. For North American audiences, I suppose that Christopher Guest’s work or “This is Spinal Tap” are among the best-known examples. I love this stuff. Mockumentaries count among my favorite “practical jokes” because of their delicate [...]
ABC News (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
The Smithsonian takes the plunge into an alternate-reality game.
JETSET (mov) (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
This week we're jam packed with alternate reality games, vampires, zombies, and mutant pigs. And that's just in the first 2 minutes! We've also got a new FUca bulary lesson and the FU of the Week is served by the writers of Dr. Horrible fr om Comic-Con!
Joystiq (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Filed under: Culture We know that some of you out there are absolute alternate reality game nuts, so we wanted to turn you on to one that's just getting into full swing, part of a promotional effort for Gamecock's upcoming Velvet Assassin , we've been lead to believe. The hunt is currently on for the second of three caches of gold, and clues have started appearing in the public announcements section...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
io9 ran an interesting article yesterday about alternate reality games as marketing platforms , citing recent campaigns for The Dark Knight and Lost that had fans flitting around the web (and sometimes out in the real world) solving puzzles connected to the shows' characters and storylines. "It's more than just advertising," writes Annalee Newitz . "It's a way to build an instant fan base without...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
It's the near future and the planet is in crisis. Unheeded warnings of an impending oil shortage have become reality. This was the premise of World Without Oil, an alternate reality game (ARG), which asked players to react to a plausible vision of the future and find ways in which to solve it. The aim, says the game's California-based creator Ken Eklund, was to help people get ready, "if not for this...
Conversation Agent (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Imagine 1,800 people collaborating in an alternate-reality game for 32 days. This was the world without oil game played in 2007. You have this massive multiplayer collaboration through gaming that is also a competition to build a reality that looks more like our favorite game - to become more engaged with the real world. Jane McGonigal of the Institute for the Future (IFTF) organizes this kind of reality...
PS3 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Filed under: Community It looks like the Resistance 2 ARG (alternate reality game) should be taken quite seriously. An email from getawarjob.com (attached, after the break) sends interested users to yet another site: America First, America Only . The site features some heavy conspiracy theories about the now-familiar "Project Abraham." Each article featured on this printing press can be enlarged,...
