The update actually ties into
a new alternate reality game filled with rumours about Portal 2.
Not exact matches
When I was obsessively watching Lost, I was equally obsessed with the elaborate
alternate -
reality game happening online over the summer, as well as the IRL ads being taken out in the
New York Times for a book called Bad Twin from the universe of the show, which was actually terrible, but was fun anyway, because you could comb through it for clues.
EA's
new Battlefield
game set to land in 2016 has been leaked as Battlefield 1 and set in an «
alternate reality» World War 1 era.
In an
alternate reality maybe... in this world, the PS4 has tons of
games,
new ones being released frequently and so many coming in the future.
It «was envisioned as a third - person action - adventure
game set in an
alternate reality version of
New York,» according to Kotaku's source.
Alternate reality puzzles (or «
games,» often abbreviated as «ARGs») are when a developer drops cryptic hints that have to be meticulously solved, and give away small snippets of information about upcoming releases or updates to popular titles, and it seems highly likely that Blizzard are making ARGs concerning a
new hero for Overwatch, their first person arena shooter that, by now, everyone and their mother, and their mother's dog have heard about.
Real Time Strategy
games continue to be popular on the PC, but they are about to open up to a whole
new fan base with the upcoming
alternate reality game Timelines: Assault On America Mobile.
This is concerning for the smaller, more creative developers who often take risks on
new platforms — the first
alternate -
reality game to become a bona fide hit is a popular Nintendo - affiliated property.
Many of these elements are familiar;
alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling have been around since the 1990s, and immersive, site - specific theater is certainly nothing
new.