Alex Manning: Arcade's Assistant
Alex Manning had never been the gamer that her friends were, but still she accompanied them to the Dante's Inferno entertainment center for the unveiling of a new video game being tested right here in their little town. Arcade was unlike anything anyone had ever seen: a virtual reality game that learned and adapted to each unique player, and graphics which made one feel as if they were right there in the digital world. With home copies of the game sent out to every teenager in the city to beta test, Arcade was becoming far more smarter (and more corrupt) than anyone could imagine. Preventing players from beating the game was still it's main objective, but now the artificial intelligence had a new pastime: enslaving the minds and bodies of those who dared challenged it in the digital realm. With each passing hour, more and more of the city's youth were disappearing without a trace. It was only after her boyfriend vanished that Alex began to investigate the di...