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