Tuesday 24 November 2009

Virtual games people play

Any coolhunter out there who predicted the rise of virtual gaming is pretty hot right now. Farmville is harvesting fans, Sorority Life is perpetual freshers' week, Pet Society has housetrained thousands and Cafe World ate all the pies. But what's next?

How about MetroMegalomaniac, the game where budding autocratics outvie each other in a race to build architectural kitsch to their own glory, trading points for prime locations, avant garde urban sculptures and demolition gangs to smash rival edifices?

Or Autotopsy, where gamers learn the noble art of forensic pathology on their friends by trial and error, trading points for manuals and apprenticeship sessions with surgeon avatars?

Or Darwin Awards-backed Don't Try This at Home, where points are awarded for ingenious avatar deaths, and trading points buys brainstorming ideas from B-movie clips in a random-generator database.

Social breakdown networking in a neighbourhood near you.

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