Video games: 'A new news paradigm'
The line between news and video games is increasingly blurring. News sites occassionally crib from video games for interactive ideas. Now an interesting videogame lets users reenact the Iraq war, Newsweek reports.
"We don't consider ourselves to be strictly a game," says Kuma Reality Games CEO Keith Halper. "We see ourselves as being a new news paradigm."
Kuma\War players get detailed military briefings and can replay the decision to fire antitank missiles into Saddam Hussein's sons hideout. The site even incorporates terror-related Associated Press stories.
The startup plans to develop new missions based on current events. A re-creation of the recent Pakistan shoot-out between the Pakistani military and Taliban forces is already in the works.
American youth is already getting much of its news from sources like John Stewart. Expect video games to be added to this new, influential mix in coming years. And news sites that don't get interactive risk losing that audience to the gaming industry.
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1 comments about 'Video games: 'A new news paradigm''we always thought (or feared) that this would happen. we did see the Gulf WarII on the TV and thought that we were really watching video games. But it was real war.the line between reality and virtuality is blurring. it has its dangers. the credibility of journalism.the "embedded journalism" is not a fully desirable development. we still - and continue to -cherish the freedom of expression. and credibility of news is a must for the very existence of the reporter concerned.
Posted by buroshiva dasgupta at April 16, 2004 10:40 PM
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