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Dear Dan, This game was initially excluded from games fairs and major retailers on the grounds it might cause offence: ironic that kids can play graphic computer games pretending to kill Iraqis and Afghans, but not this... So I wrote a review about it for New Internationalist which apparently helped the producers persuade various suppliers to stock it. A little example of how academics can be involved in conflicts over what ideas reach the public and which get censored. I have talked about the game in teaching and worn the 'evil balaclava' in a lecture (players get the balaclava after spinning the axis of evil - a pointer in the middle of the board!). I used it to illustrate simplistic visions of the world. Student feedback indicated it was a great improvement, but at least they remembered the lecture... I did think of starting a lecture playing it or doing so in tutorials but never tried it - has anyone else? Peace - Nick >-----Original Message----- >From: A forum for critical and radical geographers >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >CRIT-GEOG-FORUM automatic digest system >Sent: 27 April 2008 00:01 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM Digest - 25 Apr 2008 to 26 Apr 2008 >(#2008-109) > >There is 1 message totalling 23 lines in this issue. > >Topics of the day: > > 1. War on Terror (the board game) > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:48:26 +0100 >From: Daniel Raven-Ellison <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: War on Terror (the board game) > >I thought that it would only be polite to share with the list >the genius = of the War on Terror board game. I've been rather >taken by it and imagine th= at it would make an excellent >activity to explore geographical issues with undergraduates etc. > >Take a look here: >http://www.terrorbullgames.co.uk/ > >Has anyone used as part of a course and if so, how did it go? > >Dan > >------------------------------ > >End of CRIT-GEOG-FORUM Digest - 25 Apr 2008 to 26 Apr 2008 (#2008-109) >********************************************************************** >