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Making sense of the Middle East conflict. An intelligent computer game for PC and Mac.

Global Conflicts: Palestine is a new award-winning 3D role-playing simulation computer game in which the player assumes the role of a freelance journalist who has just arrived in Jerusalem armed with a pen, a notepad and their sharp wits to get them through the challenges ahead.

The goal is to create and get an article published for a newspaper by collecting quotes from the dialogue in the game. The player can either get information by building up trust with each side or take a more confrontational approach to dig out information. In the end, the story with the most news-value will get the best exposure, but players need to be careful what they print, because it will affect their standings with both sides.

No matter the approach or the chosen alignment, during the course of the game the players’ beliefs and ideas about the conflict will be challenged. They will experience situations - taken from real life events - that are more complicated than outsiders may realise.

The game is an ideal teaching resource for secondary schools, but parents and teenagers looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous “shoot-’em-up” and “speed car” games that seemingly monopolize the genre for home use will love it.

Global Conflicts: Palestine is available at the New Internationalist Shop.

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