The Perfect Game if EU Want Control Over the Referendum

The build up to today has been relentless with both the leave and remain campaigns picking up speed and all the polls showing it will be close, very close.

Earlier in the week I tweeted that we’d missed a trick in creating a referendum game, turns out Buzzfeed got there first with their game, Brexit Ballot Bonanza!

Either you’re bored of hearing about it or trying to take your mind of the results so you’re brain doesn’t implode from the stress, this is the solution. A simple game of catch the ballot. Choose a side, leave or remain, and catch the falling ballots in the ballot box.

Highly addictive, this should keep you busy until 7am tomorrow morning! Go to Buzzfeed’s website to play.

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Trump’s Had a Heart Attack!

Unfortunately not in real life but in the latest update to Surgeon Simulator he has and you’re the surgeon operating on him! He needs a heart transplant and you decide whether he has a heart of gold or a heart of stone, or you could just do neither and slap him round the face with a steak while he dies on the table. What would you do?

In general news games are a niche market but really, it only takes a news story to become big enough and pretty much any games studio would be willing to add a special level, mode or character to their game to stay ‘current’. This is a prime (steak pun intended) example, along with Angry Birds releasing a special edition to support the charity, RED, and Europa Universalis offering free DLC for International Women’s Day.

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Apple and the Political Debate

With our personal experience of Apple’s policy on games and politics, Endgame:Syria, it’s nice to see that with enough push from the online community they will relax their stance. Although it does beg to wonder why this is still on a game by game basis and why Apple have taken this stance in the first place. Especially when it seems that certain games slip through the net.

In May 2016, Wired featured an article around ‘Liyla & the Shadows of War’, a heartbreaking game created by Rasheed Abueideh, based on actual events during the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine. Apple originally rejected Rasheed’s submission to the App Store on the basis that it could not be categorised as game due to its political nature. After an online outcry, the decision was recently overturned, however this is not the end of the issue. With another game, ‘Israeli Heros’ (an Angry Birds style game where your goal is to fling cartoon missiles and “destroy our enemies”) being categorised as a game since Oct 2013, it does make you wonder what’s going on with the decision making process on these game, buy hey, at least they can admit when they’re wrong.

Click here for original Wired article.

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