alternate-reality

"Life Before His Eyes" is Gibbs' It's a Wonderful Life episode, in which he has a moment of mortal terror and imagines a series of alternate-reality scenarios that reveal what all the characters' lives might be like if he'd made a few different decisions along the way.

On The Set: Celebrating NCIS' 200th Episode 2012

In a special alternate-reality episode, airing Thursday at 9/8c on ABC, Ellis Grey (Kate Burton) was never stricken with Alzheimer's, and Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) had a very different upbringing.

Mer Is Pretty in Pink and 9 Other Things to Know About Grey's Anatomy's Alt-Reality 2012

"This is the first alternate-reality game I've played, and I didn't know what to expect," the resident of Twentynine Palms, Calif., says.

Wrigley Targets Web Gamers Julie Jargon 2011

A hundred years from now, someone will take this design and actually build it, putting it in a museum as an example of an early 21st century computation device in the style of the alternate-reality subgenre known [...]

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But we thought, why not take it into a larger sphere, a social activity that happens around an alternate-reality game?

Interactive game 'Vanished' doubles as an educational tool 2011

In May, Aaron Allar saw an ad on the Web soliciting "test subjects" for an alternate-reality game, and he soon plunged into a world of pulsing beats and blinking lights, black packages arriving at his door and game clues that unlocked more games.

Wrigley Targets Web Gamers Julie Jargon 2011

Slate has a slideshow of alternate-reality Watchmen films.

Worthwhile Watchmen Tidbits 2009

Slate has a slideshow of alternate-reality Watchmen films.

March 2009 2009

The game is especially popular among 20-somethings and fans of Web-based alternate-reality games, or ARGs.

Urban Scavenger Hunt Finds Followers Stu Woo 2011

Vanished has a lot in common with alternate-reality games.

Interactive game 'Vanished' doubles as an educational tool 2011