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 a forum for the uses of videogames in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment
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Paul McCartney Divorce Newsgame March 28, 2008 - by Ian Bogost The game is called Splash & Grab. Play as Heather Mills, and try to earn a larger divorce settlement by splashing water on McCartney, while avoiding the judge. I guess it's always nice to see another newsgame effort, but for the love of god does everything have to be Whack-a-Mole? Crap; not even a viable example of a tabloid game. (thanks to Ben) Comment from wetcoast on March 30, 2008
The game rhetoric is completely divorced from its topic. A better, more interesting game would be one in which you played Heather but had to make decisions - such as how much money to go for, whether to hire a lawyer or a publicist, how to react to tabloid gossip, etc., and then seeing what the effect of these decisions would be on your own approval rating and on the size of the ultimate settlement. POST A COMMENT
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