Play the News Game.com

Ian Bogost recently pointed out www.playthenewsgame.com, an interesting predictions site he describes as basically like fantasy sports with the news. Ranging from Oscars picks to the Pennsylvania Primary, there are lots of little "games" that tell you everything about a current situation then allow you to share your opinion and make a prediction from several different sides of the story. I find that they tell the actual stories of the news very well and can summarize points of view nicely. The opinion and predictions after you've read what's going on serve community functions, like a point system for each player. After you've earned enough points from playing, commenting, and accurately predicting, you can move up their ranks from citizen to politician, and eventually up to president. Anyway, it's neat and useful, though not exactly a game like you might expect. It definitely matches people who want to read the news more than someone looking to play a game online, as you'll see when you've played through one. Anyway, I'm recommending the site, as you can go there to get a nice perspective on the potential Take Two takeover.