Alert Your Reality With Xi
Looks like Sony is trying out some creative marketing/gameplay in Home this week, with the announcement of their Alternate Reality Game (ARG), Xi, starting in PlayStation Home this morning. I'm a big fan of ARG's that are done right, so it'll be interesting to see how this one unfolds in Home. The Playstation Blog had this to say intro to the game up on the site this morning to promote the game:
the adventure takes place in a series of secret areas in Home - and beyond - changing day by day, week by week, in real time. Anyone with a PLAYSTATION 3 can join in the fun for free - in English, French, Italian, German or Spanish.To discover the mystery of Xi, simply log on to PlayStation Home and look for the graffiti on the wall in the main square. Find that, and all will be revealed....
So download Home and head to the main square to start the adventure, and if you need some help, apparently they have a forum thread setup for you to read and post info about the game. As for me, this announcement has me thinking about my Vector Math class from college in which we had to use Xi as a symbol in eigenvectors, I so hope I don't need to remember any of that for this game.
XI HAS BEGUN! [PlayStation.Blog]
PixelPoet
Posted to Miscellany, Video Games on 23 March 2009
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Isn't "Xi" what Blackwater changed their name to?
@ John Hummel: nope...that's Xe.
sarcasm armed/ it's not close at all.
ouch!