Play Online Games News

Who will be Israel's next Prime Minister? Who will be North Korea's government successor? Will OJ Simpson be found guilty this time? How will the Vice Presidential elections look like? And what's your opinion anyway? 

Instead of chewing these burning issues over a coffee table or writing witty commentary in news sites, you can play the news. Literally. The community and online game Play the News allows you to play the latest happenings in the world, forecast the consequences in the real world, cry out their opinion, argue with those who think otherwise and get updated in the world news in the least tedious way. 

Play the News, which describes itself as "fantasy sports meets the evening news", is a kind of a role playing game, where during the recent week, one could play the role of the American Republican vice-presidential nominee Sara Plain, Israel's resigning Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and the North Korea leader Kim Jong Il, deal with their most urgent dilemmas and aim to solve them in the most appropriate way, all without leaving the comfort of his own home. 

Play the News is not the first online game in which the players' goal is to unravel a global conflict, or at least to experience life in the battlefield, again from the convenience and protectiveness of their homes. It was preceded by internet and video games such as mtvU's Darfur is Dying, Serious Games Interactive's Global Conflict: Palestine and alike. And what it lacks in the area of design and interface, it makes up with constantly additions of new games.  

Moreover, the potential lays in the community features of Play the News might just take the online game or its promising concept to other directions than simply approach the world news in an active manner. Since the players are ranked in accordance with their accuracy of their predictions, and at the same time create a "socio-political profile", Play the News can be easily metamorphosed into an online gambling and/or an online dating site where you can bet for the results of certain cosmic events while browsing through other players' profiles looking for a soul mate with similar views on the constitution clash in Bolivia, for example.