Campaign Game Mimics Real Life
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A new simulated election game that lets you play campaign manager to a presidential candidate is both thrillingly and disturbingly similar to real-world politics. A review by Jason Silverman.
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Innovative new features are designed to attract casual players looking for a few minutes of fun.
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A video game maker created a wish list of its ideal job candidates and set up a campaign to woo each one. A personalized iPod helped grab their attention.
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A Glasgow-based company has found a peculiar way to mark the 41st anniversary of John F. Kennedy&#39;s assassination: releasing a video game that recreates the event.
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The winner of this year's competition in the classic computerized strategy game shows that a tactic based on cooperating with team members can succeed over one that relies on echoing rivals' moves. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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The net and video games are becoming essential tools for political activists.
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It&#39;s the scam of the 2004 presidential campaign. The emergence of new political groups this election cycle -- such as the Republican-funded Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the Democratic-bankrolled America
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An upcoming video game lets players re-enact the Swift boat mission in Vietnam that won Sen. John Kerry a Silver Star award for battlefield heroism.
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Game invites users to play the role of JFK's assassin, causing some observers to wonder whether video games have gone too far.
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With the increasing interest among marketers in embedding brands in entertainment programming, a viral campaign is arriving that spoofs the concept â while at the same time playing up the product.
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Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar proves that a product doesn&#39;t have to be completely original to be very good.
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Manage the presidential campaign of your choice in an innovative free campaign simulation game.  Can you lead Kerry to victory?  Can you help Bush win re-election?
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U.S. presidential hopefuls are the target of endless satirical barbs on the web as a host of cybercynics offer comic relief from election politics. Opponents Bush and Kerry appear in fake news reports, multimedia presentations and artwork.
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Makers of online role-playing games aim to attract a diverse crowd--and break out of the fantasy-medieval mold.
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Aided, abetted and bedded The felchland Second Life refuses to stay out of our synapses despite some of our best efforts. This month we find the puerile game creeping into our courts and into popular prose.â¦
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A game that eerily mimics misanthropic online reality lets you team up with social misfits from around the internet to blow away all those other pesky jerks. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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A campaign for sunglasses carries a theme â âNever hideâ â that seems counterintuitive when you consider the product.