In Real Life

They Turned My City Into A Video Game

There’s a certain joy in hearing your country being mentioned in a movie or a video game. Then there’s this moment of bliss when you see a city from you country featured in a movie or a video game. I live in Pakistan. I play video games in Pakistan. But many of the movies I love to watch and games I play aren’t set anywhere near here. The new Ghost Recon, however, comes to my old neighbourhood.


May 19, 2011
In Real Life

Osama’s Compound Now A Virtual Commando Training Ground

TAMPA, Fla. – To passersby, T.J., a fit 20-something, is running around a red felt carpet about half the size of a basketball court inside a convention centre. In his mind, he’s wearing a full set of body armour, his face obscured by a ski mask with a death’s head silkscreened on it. And he’s just dropped a terrorist inside Osama bin Laden’s Abbotabad compound.


January 19, 2011
In Real Life

Nothing Sega Has Done To Sonic Can Match This Horror

You may have seen these cheap LCD games offered as McDonalds Happy Meal toys before. They’ve been run in several territories around the world. But you’ve never seen them advertised like they were in Pakistan.


June 3, 2010
News

CIA Drone Killings Could Lead To A "PlayStation Mentality" Towards Killing

A United Nations investigator is warning that CIA-controlled remote drone assassinations of suspected Islamic terrorists could lead to a “PlayStation mentality” towards killing.


March 10, 2010
News

The First Pakistani Arcade Game Could Use A Little Work

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Shera Jutt, the first arcade game created by a Pakistani Company, takes a humorous look at pop Punjabi culture, or it would have, had sponsors not pulled out of the project four years ago.