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By Nikki Montgomery “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline Published: August 16, 2011 by Crown Publishing Group Genres:  Novel, LitRPG, Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Pop culture fiction   Ernest Cline killed it with his first novel “Ready Player One.” This story takes place in 2045 when people have basically abandoned the real world for life in a virtual world called the OASIS. “Ready Player One” revolves around a teenage boy named Wade Watts, AKA Parzival, who embarks on a quest to find the Easter Egg that the creator, James Halliday, hid within the v...

624 Views Asmodee and Days of Wonder are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the hit board game, Ticket to Ride Europe with the launch of a limited collector’s edition this spring. Ticket to Ride Europe is the second installment of the Ticket to Ride gaming franchise, one that has been enjoyed by over 80 million players around the world to date. The board game has risen to such popularity that it has become a cultural icon, with appearances on TV shows such as Big Bang Theory, The IT Crowd, and Blacklist. As well as its TV spots, the game has had the backing of celebrities like Emmy Rossum...

Interactive reality TV show Rival Peak gathered 22 million views since launch. Live-streamed on Facebook, the show is both a game and a reality TV programme, featuring AI contestants influenced by the audience. It's been streamed 24 hours a day since its launch on December 2, with weekly recap episodes hosted by Will Wheaton. The 22 million views have been achieved across the first six episodes, while 600,000 unique viewers interacted with the show since launch. PocketGamer reported that the show has been particularly popular in the US, Mexico, India and Brazil. Initially available on Andr...

Dec 23, 2020 18:00 EST After experiments such as Netflix's interactive shows, of which Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is arguably the most famous example, there's a new project called Rival Peak that's exploring a different side of the intersection between games and television. Described by its makers as a 'Massive Interactive Live Experience', Rival Peak is a reality show that started airing on Facebook earlier this month where viewers can choose to interact in various ways, chiefly picking who will get eliminated. So far, it probably sounds familiar. Only this is all created by the Unity e...

Why is so little of Ready Player Two set in the real world? It’s partly because now the Oasis is indistinguishable from reality with the advent of the ONI, the brain-computer interface. Also, the real world is tricky. The more I fleshed it out, the more wrong I’m going to be about my predictions. On the other hand, I felt I could extrapolate the Oasis and the virtual world 25 years ahead just from my knowledge of video games. For the die-hard fan Yes. The story picks up nine days after Ready Player One ended. The main protagonist Wade Owen Watts (virtual name, Parzival) was 19 at the ...