How A Game Made People Think Half-Life 3 Would Be Released This Year
Bossa Studios never intended for Surgeon Simulator 2013
Is There A Valve-Related Alternate Reality Game Going On? [UPDATE:…
And so the speculation continues! The other day, we wrote about a Half-Life 2 update that featured Korean audio. It was a mistake according to Valve, and they fixed it—but that didn't stop fans from freaking out.
Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine, and Decode This Assassin's Creed Image
As Assassin's Creed's is basically predicated on brainwashing and an enormous conspiracy theory, it's the perfect subject for the kind of viral clue-hunting alternate-reality game that surfaced on the game's official site this past week.
Developer Behind Creepy Alternate-Reality Adventure Games Now Making a …
Many years ago, the creepy alternate-reality adventure game Missing: Since January (called In Memoriam outside of the US) tried to blur the lines between its fiction and our world. In pursuing the trail of the fictional Jack Lorski and Karen Volker, players wind through real-world history and geography, as well as…
This Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist Might Be The Most Fun Mass Effect…
I still haven't had a chance to play the new "Leviathan
Team Fortress 2's Gray Mann Surfaces as Signs Point to All-Robot…
Diehard Team Fortress 2 fans have spent all weekend sleuthing out Friday's tease
Disney is Rewriting Your Childhood With Nostalgia For a Game That…
Sega recently announced that their upcoming game Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed will feature the titular hero of Disney's November film Wreck-it Ralph as a playable character. The movie's director, Rich Moore, calls it a "dream come true" that we can see "Wreck-It Ralph in a real video game alongside Sonic and other …
The Complicated Alternate Reality of The Secret World and its Secret…
The Secret World officially launches next week, on July 3. It's a somewhat unconventional
Committing Genocide in Pokémon Helps Me Shape Who I am
For me, beating a game isn't in reaching the end point. Finishing a game is easy enough. Having the highest stats, the best gear, exploring and experiencing everything though? That's not as simple. Still, reaching that "optimal state" is my personal holy grail.
This Alternate Reality Game Lets Players Control Real People
There are plenty of games out there that posit alternate realities. Upcoming MMO The Secret World bases its whole plot
What Battlefield Might Look Like With Google Glasses
Google Glasses is somewhat of a creepy concept, but it can also mean a drastic change for gamers. Imagine playing the next Battlefield title like something of an ARG
Have You 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.
"Potato Sack" Studios Say They Had "Free Rein" In Portal 2's ARG
The elaborate alternate 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…
So How Close Are We To Unlocking Portal 2?
With two titles "completed" in Valve's play-for-an-early-release stunt
Portals Opening All Over Steam's Potato Sack Indie Games
Valve's vast potato-based conspiracy
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.
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.
How To Role-Play Your Way Into Becoming A PlayStation 3 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.
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.
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.
PlayStation Home's Xi Comes To A Close
Sony's PlayStation Home alternate reality game Xi is coming to a close, and the door to the story's dramatic conclusion now stands open for all.
Xi - Join The Veilcorp Team
The PlayStation Home alternate reality game Xi takes another step beyond the console as the shadowy corporate entity known as Veilcorp begins recruiting applicants in the New York and Los Angeles area.
PlayStation Home Xi ARG Mingles With Reality
The alternate reality game Xi
PlayStation Home Gets Much More Interesting With Xi
There's much more to do in PlayStation Home than the Running Man today, as Sony launches the first console-based Alternate Reality Game, Xi.
Nokia Chooses Ghostly Phone Game
