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There are several visions of how gaming will be in the future. I doubt that consoles will last forever and I do think that mobile games will rise to overtake everything. The big question is what will the gaming of future look like? My best answer is this video that Hewlett-Packard did called Roku’s Reward. I imagine that it will be a mix of augmented reality with GPS and other technologies folded in.

Smartphones can do some of the things in the video, but when I look for iOS and Android games like that, there are few with that sort of ambition. But one game seems to be on the right track. It’s called DeadDrop. It’s a spy game played on the iPhone that mixes alternate reality gaming with social elements. It’s played in real-life using your own group of friends and the game employs Google Maps. From the sound of it, it’s like Kaos aka Assassin aka Gotcha but more high tech and with more minigames.

Players are assigned a target and they have to eliminate each other to be the last person standing. The game gets more complex with five different weapons and minigames built in. They can even create user-defined safe houses.

For those who don’t want to play with others, there is a single-player mode that seems to focus on minigames that activate depending on your location. Here’s a trailer that shows the game’s potential.

DeadDrop seems to mix intriguing parts of live play with video games. I’m curious to see how it works, especially in a small town or college campus. You can check it out here at the Apple App Store. 

This is all conjecture; I’m just putting it out there. It looks like there’s an update in the Resistance 2 alternate reality game. There appears to be a split within America in this alternate reality timeline.

According to the weird e-mail, everything is not what it appears to be. A couple of words pop out in the message aside from the old timey telegraph style. Stop. It’s written like this. Stop.

The biggest code word from the message is Project Abraham. What does it mean? We’ll it looks like this site has something to do with it. It’s a little creepy.

I just hope there’s a payoff at the end of this. Do you like Resistance: Fall of Man? What about “I Love Bees,” the alternate reality game that helped push Halo 2 to record sales?

Well, the folks at Sony have set up their own alternate reality game on a Web site called Get a War Job. Right now, it looks a little puzzling. The art direction takes its cues right from Resistance.

The Allied symbol does stand out. I was a little suspicious though of giving out all the private information they ask. But if you check below, the site does have a privacy policy link on the bottom. You can also dial the faux phone number on one of the cards: 1-866-931-9417. It gives out a number with recording that ties into the Web site.

