Are news video games the next step in the evolution of journalism? According to Ian Bogost and the Georgia Institute of Technology they are. At the New Scientist, Bogost highlights two such games: Burger Tycoon in which players raise cattle in South Africa to produce fatty foods for global dissemination, and Escape From Woomera, a game about a real life Australian detention camp for illegal immigrants.
What say you, Rumpus readers? Can you envision a future where you play the news?
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