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This Alternate Reality Game Has Players Control Real People

There are plenty of games out there that posit alternate realities. Upcoming MMO The Secret World bases its whole plot around the idea, while piles of other games have at some point integrated themselves into the real world, often for marketing purposes.

March 14, 2012
In Real Life

Former Adventure Game Designer Makes Disney World His New Canvas

What’s an adventure game designer to do when he moves on from PC titles? Conquer Disney World, of course.

September 1, 2011
News

Ever Considered A Career In Morally Questionable Pharmaceuticals?

Looking for a new line of work? Do you know anything about the potential harmful effects of shady experimental drugs and mad scientist-level bioengineering? No? Then you sound perfect for the Umbrella Corporation.

April 22, 2011
PC

"Potato Sack" Studios Say They Had "Free Rein" In Portal 2′s ARG

The elaborate augmented reality game that served as a viral marketing device for Portal 2′s release was not entirely devised by Valve. In fact, the developers of the 13 games of the “Potato Sack,” the group of indie games central to the ARG’s final resolution, say they were involved in the scheme’s design from the beginning, with quite a bit of creative freedom over how it all played out.

April 17, 2011
News

So How Close Are We To Unlocking Portal 2?

With two titles “completed” in Valve’s play-for-an-early-release stunt with Portal 2, GLaDOS says we’ve only shaved about 90 minutes off the scheduled release of midnight, Tuesday. Several sites calculate that the effort is much further ahead than that. Like, between 16 and 18 hours as of writing.

April 6, 2011
PC

Valve Tied To Vast Potato-Based Conspiracy, May Be Portal 2 Related

As of last Friday, April 1, Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve has been dropping cryptic clues in its own games (Team Fortress 2, Portal 2) and games made by others (Super Meat Boy, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, AudioSurf). The common thread? Potatoes.

March 9, 2011
PC

A Reality In Which I’m A Terrorist

In a slightly different reality Japan is a vassal state to the Greater Republic of Korea, much of the United States has become the New Korean Federation of Occupied America and I’m the shadowy figurehead of a seditious and violent anti-Korean movement.

May 7, 2010
News

How To Role-Play Your Way Into Becoming A PS3 Developer

James Marsden, the managing director of developer FuturLab, explains how a budding Flash developer managed to catch the eye and funding of Sony Computer Entertainment. Apparently the key lies in impressing the hell out of everyone and LARPing.

March 2, 2010
News

Urgent Evoke: The Game That Seeks To Do Good, In Real Life

Jane McGonigal believes in gamers, because they’re trained to believe they can win. She’s built an alternate-reality game to tap that confidence and channel it into good works benefiting gamers’ communities, with the larger goal of fostering empowerment in Africa.

November 13, 2009
News

Mysterious LEGO Pods Falling From Space

Mysterious LEGO pods are appearing around the globe, piloted by minifig pilots that may hold the key to a parallel universe. Only you and The Bradford Rant Institute of Cosmic Kinesis can solve this riddle.

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