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Free speech? You be the judge — er, clerk …

August 20th, 2009, 10:50 pm by Jayson Peters
O'Connor

O'Connor

Think you have what it takes to be a Supreme Court clerk?

Sandra Day O’Connor says: Bring it, noob.

Supreme Decision, a free computer game for teens created with the help of the former Supreme Court justice and Arizona lawmaker, has launched at www.ourcourts.org. It’s the first of several planned Web-based games designed to get middle-school age students totally amped about the Constitution and the legal system.

Players assume the role of a clerk helping one of the esteemed justices prepare for a tie-breaking vote on a First Amendment case. It’s kind of like when I was in school and our class split into groups to roleplay a similar scenario — except, now the students can do it at individual computers, ignoring each other and preparing for a life of featureless solitude in the cubicle farms of Changzhou.

Via The Associated Press

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Let’s play swine flu pandemic! (It’s just a game … right?)

August 17th, 2009, 6:47 am by Jayson Peters

Why am I not surprised that a computer game based on the swine flu pandemic has beat a vaccine for the H1N1 virus to market?

Image: PhotoSpin

Image: PhotoSpin

You can play The Great Flu online at www.thegreatflu.com. It was designed by medical experts who apparently have nothing better to do at a university hospital in the Netherlands.

Thanks, Dutch doctors. (Cough, cough.) When the swine flu makes its epic comeback this fall, we’ll know who to blame. Unless this is like Ender’s Game, and world health officials have given up all hope of managing the crisis themselves, and they’re disguising the situation as a game that will inspire some child prodigy to step forward and save us all.

For the love of God, kids — PLAY THE GAME!

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Hail to the ‘Chief’ — you

January 20th, 2009, 7:00 am by Jayson Peters

Commander in Chief computer game Barack Obama Inauguration DayThink you can do better than Barack Obama on issues such as unemployment, the environment, social security, or foreign relations? Here’s your chance! Commander in Chief, a new PC game that lets players make critical presidential decisions, goes on sale today, the same day that Obama is inaugurated the 44th president of the United States.

Just like the president, players immediately face the same problems and challenges as in the real world - the economy, controlling the military, national security and terrorism, natural disasters, alternative energy sources, and many others - all with the persistent threat of a terrorist attack on a major U.S. city. Read the rest of this entry »

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‘Nobunaga’s Ambition’: Yes, they’re still releasing PS2 games

January 13th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters

Nobunaga's Ambition

If you can call something as complex as as a title in the Nobunaga’s Ambition series a “game.” KOEI is releasing the PS2 game Nobunaga’s Ambition: Iron Triangle to North American stores Jan. 27.

It’s more like stepping back through time a la Hiro in Heroes’ first-season finale. The NA series is a staple in the turn-based strategy with more than two dozen titles spread across eight or so systems, and they’re all known for their intricacy and the historical richness of feudal Japan. Read the rest of this entry »

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