News

Iran Overturns Game Developer’s Death Sentence

There is new hope for the survival of an American sentenced to death in Iran for spying today, as Iran has overturned the death sentence for Amir Hekmati.


February 23, 2012
News

American Game Developer On Death Row In Iran Receives Family Visit

The fate of American game developer Amir Hekmati, currently on death row in Iran, remains in question weeks after the original deadline for appeal has passed.


February 9, 2012
News

Game Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran Asks Obama For Intervention

Amir Hekmati, the US-born game developer sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly engaging in espionage for the CIA, has asked the Obama administration to do whatever it takes, including a prisoner-transfer, to save him from execution.


January 11, 2012
News

Efforts Intensify To Save Game Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran

A day after news broke that US citizen and former game developer Amir Hekmati was sentenced to death by the Iranian government, a glimmer of hope emerged that the 28-eight-year old’s life might be spared.


October 21, 2011
News

Gaddafi’s Death Makes News Today, Video Game Tomorrow

The confirmation of Muammar Gaddafi’s death at the hands of Libyan rebels flashed on news channels, websites, Facebook and Twitter this morning. And by next week people will be playing the computer game version of the death.


May 10, 2011
PC

Is The Bin Laden Kill Game Cathartic, Educational Or Just Ghoulish?

Osama bin Laden hunches quietly in the darkness of an Abbottabad basement, rifle clutched in his hands. He swivels smoothly left. Stops. Then swivels smoothly right. His face is frozen in a thousand-mile stare, eyes unblinking.


May 7, 2011
In Real Life

Watch Gamers Kill Osama In Recreation Of SEALS Assault On Compound

Gamers can play through the final, fatal moments of Osama Bin Laden’s last stand in Abbottabad, Pakistan in the latest, last episode of video war game Kuma War II.


PC

Kill Osama Bin Laden On Saturday

One hundred and six missions later, virtual war ends for Kuma War with the playable, video game re-enactment of the killing of Osama Bin Laden.


May 3, 2011
News

Video Games Let You Kill, Abuse Osama

Sunday night a team of two dozen Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden. If all goes as planned, you will soon be able to re-enact that head shot in a video game.


May 7, 2009
News

Somali Showdown Lets *You* Take Down Virtual Pirates

The developers behind the episodic KumaWar series are once again capitalising on deadly real-world events, putting players in the shoes of the plundered with Somali Showdown: Pirates on the High Seas.