Last week we had a dream that George W. Bush gave out a Jack Thompson-like challenge stating he would pay ten thousand dollars to whatever group of bedroom programmers made a game about America attacking whatever country he liked the sound of next. And when we woke up, our pillow had gone!



Meet Kuma\ Reality Products, the company that specialise in making crappy modules based on news stories for their crappy (free) first person shooter. Juding by this CNN headline, thought, things are getting a bit close to the knuckle.

All this trouble must be because of how hardcore they are. Look, they've even spelled their name with a backslash. That must be why OUR TROOPS PLAY KUMA\ GAMES!

"This game actually makes me flash back and think about the war and the aftermath....But that's not necessarily bad. Being that I will be going back to Iraq for a 3RD tour, I'll say that it's much better fighting from my PC behind a desk then actually slinging lead at each other."

SGT from HHC 1/64 Armor,
3rd Infantry Division(M)

It's as if the person writing this is just NEARLY intelligent enough to realise that the sensible solution to his quandry is to PLAY VIDEO GAMES INSTEAD OF JOINING THE BASTARD IDIOT ARMY, but not quite.



We feel bad making fun of them, though, because "Kuma\ family member Silent Killer Z" is in critical condition in Iraq after being shot by a person with a gun that fired real bullets.