Urban Hunt - Another Alternate Reality Game?

An anonymous reader writes "Mysterious murders in an abandoned mental hospital, a strange device that reads and records people's dreams, poetry written by dead people, and a reality TV show production company that has pushed the envelope too far and may have a dark secret they are desperately trying to protect. Just what the hell is going on here? It started when "Casting Call" notices for a new reality TV show called "Urban Hunt" began showing up on several popular reality TV fan sites. A secret message encoded into the autoresponder applicants received led to a urban legends website which featured a story about a failed reality TV show called "Dread House" supposedly set in an abandoned mental institution. This appears, on the surface, to be another Alternate Reality Game like the notable and previously Slashdot-mentioned ilovebees Halo 2 ARG, but there are elements that make this game possibly the most realistic and believable yet. So, is it even a game at all? Help us try to get to the truth at the Unfiction forum and game-specific Wiki set up to discuss the conundrum."

Comments

Okay this is too far..

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Recently manhunt got blamed for some psycho killing another kid... why arn't games like this blamed?

Games are games and need to stay where they are, when you start crossing the barrier between Mario jumping on mushrooms and abuse of mentally disturbed people you cross the line.

Things like this get into peoples heads (Urban legends style) and "a friend of a friend" type things. If it's on a console or on the internet we can shrug it off, but when you start throwing in real life stuff the line blurs so much that people who have violent urges may see this as a real event..

This maybe the kinda thing which people could blame for real life murders and looking at Slashdot it's getting more known and mainstream (I love bees for example).