Video game puts players in Kerry's Swift Boat

The line between video games and the media continues to blur. The news-as-video-game company CyberJournalist.net wrote about in April, Kuma War, is releasing a new mission, "John Kerry and the men of Swift Boat PCF-94."

Based on the Navy's records of the now controversial encounter on Feb. 28, 1969, the mission puts the player in Lt. John Kerry's shoes, letting them lead three Swift boats into enemy fire on the banks of the Mekong Delta. How realistic is it? Well, the site says the mission "includes broadband video news show, real-world intel, satellite images and the background you need to understand a key issue in this year's presidential election."

Who needs newspapers when you can get all your news from video games?

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