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Press Release:
BRISTOL, UK MARCH 4th, 2013: The creators of Endgame:Syria have
turned their development attention to the ongoing horse-meat
scandal in their latest release. In '
Cow Crusher' the player runs their own meat
processing plant and must ensure that its output is 100% beef, in
an irreverent comment on the speed and mechanisation of our
food production process.
Players need to hit the right button to squish the animal into
the right meat product and keep the quality high; while making sure
they don't process any horses in the works. Cow Crusher
is the latest game by
GameTheNews.net with the
development taking around 3 days to create it's newest
newsgame.
GameTheNews's design and production director Tomas Rawlings
commented, “Cow Crusher is part of an ongoing experiment into
how games can play a role in news and current affairs and this time
we've opted for a more fun approach to the
topic.” The game is out now
to play for free online as HTML5 and
for
Android devices via Google Play.
GameTheNews became a global talking-point
following the release of 'Endgame:Syria' a game covering the
ongoing war. The developer says they are still “in
process” with an Apple version of Endgame:Syria
and also have another serious title in production themed around the
War on Drugs in Mexico.
Notes for Editors:
Screenshots of the game for use in any article can be found
at:
http://bit.ly/c0wcrushart
About:
GameTheNews is a project by digital development and consultancy
studio Auroch Digital, based in Bristol, UK. The project
is exploring how games can be developed from news stories. They
have produced a number of games before this one on a variety of
topics such as the US elections and solar power. The existing
GameTheNews games can be found on Wired and the Huffington Post
–
see here for more
information
GameTheNews became a global talking point after the release of
Endgame:Syria. The newsgame exploring the war in Syria
was rejected by Apple eliciting huge interest in both the game
itself and the concept of games as news –
see here for more
information
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