Although I have never been a watcher of ABC’s LOST (I always suspected it didn’t have a real ending… 
I was intrigued when I heard that ABC had released an online game component called LostScape.
With all the mystery and intrigue surrounding the plot for LOST and the seemingly obsessive fan-base, this seems like the kind [...]
The press around the Olympics/McDonalds sponsored ARG, The Lost Ring, continues to grow. The NYT actually has McDonalds on record admitting to their involvement.
“I think finding out that it was McDonald’s was kind of a big shock for everyone,” said Geoff May, a player in Ontario who founded a Web site (olympics.wikibruce.com) on the game. [...]
The LA Times has a pretty good look at the ARG efforts of 42 Entertainment on behalf of the upcoming Batman movie:
“So to stand out, “The Dark Knight’s” alternate reality game (ARG for short) is mashing up advertising, scavenger-hunting and role-playing in a manner that variously recalls “The X-Files” and the play “Tony n’ Tina’s [...]
The NYT continues to flex its tech-news muscles with a really cool story about a new online/offline game called GXC:
“GXC more closely resembles an intramural or interscholastic sport than the typical online video game, where individuals or small groups are pitted against each other. GXC teams, made up of hundreds and sometimes thousands of players, [...]
More often than not we hear how various technologies from video games to the internet are a big part of the reason kids are sitting around getting fat and not going outside to play.
Well, according to PSFK, there is a one couple that decided to take GPS technology and turn it into childsplay:
“As avid walkers, [...]
There is a more complete look on CNet about what Penguin has up its sleeve with their online publishing scheme:
“We Tell Stories is actually a seven-part adventure, said Jeremy Ettinghausen, the digital publisher for Penguin. It will begin with six weekly installments, each of which is based on a classic novel–and written by a different [...]
Over on CNet, they scored a sit-down with ARG designer extraordinaire Jane McGonigal. The whole interview is worth checking out. Here’s a highlight:
“We talk about collective intelligence, but you need a diversity of participants to really make it work. It’s not just intellectual diversity, but also gender diversity and age diversity. One of the things [...]
Those smart folks over at PSFK linked to a great article in the GuardianUK that looked at the rising trend of ARG’s and then asks:
“If ingenious games designers can inspire thousands of people to collaborate to solve a puzzle, could we do something similar to tackle global warming, keep communities safe, provide support for the [...]
BoingBoing has what they are calling part of a Terminator/Sarah Connor Chronicles ARG.
The “footage” claims to have been recovered from the wreckage of the EniTech Research Lab. Their website has a bunch of videos about opening up their research to the public.
The comments are great as people try to determine whether or not this is [...]
Jane McGonigal has been involved in just about all of the major net-based ARGs of the past few years, including I Love Bees, Last Call Poker and Cruel 2 B Kind. She also turns out to be one of the main forces behind the latest ARG, The Lost Ring.
This is a little bit dated but [...]
