On occasion, games drawing on real-world events can offer a chance for introspection.
Then there’s the obsessions.
But games offer a space were real-life can be filtered into something controlled, and the truly insidious explored.
The Blackwater private military company is still around today, though it has rebranded twice.
The company initially changed its name to Xe Services in 2009.
It became Academi in 2011, and remains so today.
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For many people throughout the world, World War I is one of those moments.
And that’s not hyperbole.
World War I saw 60 million European troops mobilized, of which nine million perished.
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That’s not even counting the seven million civilians that died.
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If that all sounds intensely politically charged, just wait: it gets worse.
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At what point does the murder of five women in London’s slums become fair game for the media?
Naturally, the commission’s findings have been refuted over the years and numerous conspiracy theories have taken root.
The gameplay inCuster’s Revengeis simple.
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Another version of the game,General Retreat, reversed the roles, but was still bad.
In 1959, nine experienced ski hikers set off for a trek in the Ural Mountains and disappeared.
Their frozen bodies were later recovered, but that’s where the mystery comes in.
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To make matters worse, one of the group had her eyes and tongue removed.
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The game places the player in the role of a hiker following the party’s doomed expedition route.
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No wonder Kratos is always so mad.
While a novel concept, Furbies were actually incredibly taxing to maintain and kind of annoying.
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