Posts tagged games
Should Video Games Adhere to International Humanitarian Law? | Popular Science
Lots of virtual people die in first-person shooter war games — as of January, 62 billion virtual people had died in COD: Black Ops, according to game maker Activision, and it’s surely way more than that now.
Another interesting statistic: “virtual people” death tolls.
![Phone Story is an educational game about the hidden social costs of smartphone manufacturing. Follow your phone’s journey from the Coltan mines of the Congo to the electronic waste dumps in Pakistan through four colorful mini-games. Compete with market forces in an endless spiral of technological obsolescence.
Phone Story for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Via Daniel
UPDATE: apple-yanks-app-depicting-the-dark-side-of-your-iphone. I managed to snag before that happened, just after posting here. You? [Curiosity: Is there some way of distributing banned apps?]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrgpv8uvu71qzuq4lo1_400.jpg)
Phone Story is an educational game about the hidden social costs of smartphone manufacturing. Follow your phone’s journey from the Coltan mines of the Congo to the electronic waste dumps in Pakistan through four colorful mini-games. Compete with market forces in an endless spiral of technological obsolescence.
Via Daniel
UPDATE: apple-yanks-app-depicting-the-dark-side-of-your-iphone. I managed to snag before that happened, just after posting here. You? [Curiosity: Is there some way of distributing banned apps?]
