In Real Life

Invade Syria? A Video Game Tested That.

We’ve seen this script before. A cruel regime slaughtering civilians. YouTube clips of weeping mothers and dead children. Hesitant calls for humanitarian intervention by the Western powers. Much dithering while the body count climbs, and then more guilt about the dithering.


October 5, 2010
News

A Game About Insurgency

The sounds of guns echoed throughout Al-Assad Library Book Exhibition in Damascus, Syria. The guns weren’t tangible but virtual. The conflict, however, was from real life.