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Alternate Reality Games Grab Mindshare
An nonymous reader points to articles at the New York Times and on the BBC about online games that require a lot more audience participation and curiosity than conventional games do. "Known as ARGs or Alternate Reality Games, these immersive experiences mix real world clues, phone calls, voicemail, email chatter-bots, real people playing roles in real life and a bevy of bogus and legit websites, to create a fully rounded gaming experience that bleeds over into everyday life. With central sites like ARGN, Unfiction, and endless forums and Yahoo groups, the BBC claims that this is not only a quickly emerging gaming trend, but that it may also have real-world applications like group dynamics and problem solving. Chasing the Wish claims to already have a few thousand people worldwide playing since it opened for play on Feb. 28. One sure sign of having people's attention is the fact that it's already spawned a parody site, Chasing the Fish."
When games start bleeding into real life, it's time to see a psychologist.
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i thought 'the game' with michael douglas was decent. then again, i smoked a shitload of grass before i saw it.
Imagine how pissed off the NSA is going to be if this sort of thing takes off. All those intercepts of evil people planning which turn out to be a couple of bored 23-year-old guys somewhere...
...you never need the flash player.
You are already playing the game, you just don't know it.
But I don't know if If I'd like to have all those sleazy chicks calling me at work. (-;
It's called "real life".
Americans say the darndest things.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
That in order to sell more games to sociopathic white male killers, we should include more Ferraris and other assorted nice cars along with the heavy firepower? *scratches head*
So I drowned the motherfucker in his swimming pool.
Hmmm.