Posts tagged “The Bleeding Edges”

After an early access release gave us just a few puzzles from the first two of four “tables”, a full version of Alice & Smith’s Ahnayro: The Dream World is now out, and I really rather like it. Which isn’t going to stop me from complaining about it too.

Tagged with Alice & Smith, feature, review, The Bleeding Edges, wot i think, Ahnayro: The Dream World, The Black Watchmen.

The Bleeding Edges are a series of articles on games that blur reality and fiction.Oh it feels like home. So many spin-offs deep it must be getting dizzy, Ahnayro: The Dream World [official site] is a spin-off from The Black Watchmen, itself a spin-off from The Secret World. But, importantly, you need have heard of neither - let alone played them - to fully embrace…

Tagged with Alice & Smith, early access, feature, The Bleeding Edges, Ahnayro: The Dream World, The Black Watchmen.

The Bleeding Edges are a series of articles on games that blur reality and fiction.In 1997, when the world wide web was barely spun, a game came along that was unlike anything else before it, and with few bold enough to follow it since. It was called The Stone [tribute site], and - incredibly for the time - played exclusively through a web browser. Even…

Tagged with feature, interview, Rod Bruinooge, The Bleeding Edges, The Stone.

The Bleeding Edges are a series of articles on games that blur reality and fiction.There was once a wonderful thing on the internet: The Stone. It was when we were all tiny babies (1997), and Wikipedia was still a twinkle in Jimmy Wales's twinkly eye. You got access to it by buying a physical object, a small stone pendant, and with the code imprinted upon…

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The Bleeding Edges is a series of articles on alternative reality gaming - games that blur the line between reality and fiction, smudge the edges of the frame and let the game bleed over into your real life.When I reviewed The Temporal Invasion last week, I lamented that it fell short of the reality-augmenting pleasure* that I'd found in 2003's In Memoriam, and wished there…

Tagged with Alternative Reality, feature, lazy 8 studios, The Bleeding Edges, Extrasolar.