The gender-balanced world of Alternate Reality Gaming

In these games, a cohesive narrative is revealed through series of websites, emails, phone calls, IM, live and in-person events. Players often earn new information to further the plot by cracking puzzles.

Most important, the players of these games typically organize themselves into communities to share information and speculate on what it all means and where it's all going. These are platform-free MMORPGs.

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