With confirmation today that Obama is advertising in billboards in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise, Presidential politics have apparently started to take games seriously as way of reaching voters. Less serious is this pro-Obama voting simulator. There are also prediction games using the presidential election, and Ian Bogost’s Campaign Rush.
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October 14th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I wonder how many votes he’ll get through this ground-breaking advertising campaign?