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People Played Real Plane Crash Web Game 4.6 Million Times

Stephen Totilo July 11, 2009 5:54 AM

Hero On The Hudson, a gameplay-light web game about Captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s successful landing of an Airbus A320 on the Hudson River, is just one popular game based on that stuff most commercial video games don’t deal with: current events.

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