GXC: If Napoleon and Zuckerberg Spawned
Gamers, rejoice! GoCrossCampus, the Risk-esque multiplayer game that got a lot of attention last year, is launching its 2008 Ivy League Championship tomorrow, September 16. Co-founder Matthew Brimer, Yale '09, explains the concept:
Take a world domination game, multiply it by over 50,000 players, inject plenty of social interactivity, and set the whole thing on a map of New England. You control who you attack and where you defend, working together en masse with the rest of your team for total Ivy League domination. The object of the tournament is to conquer the entire map and oust all your rival Ivies.”
50,000 is a bit of a stretch at this point, since Penn is leading the pack with 244 players, and you know that old saying, as goes Radar, so go the online gaming worlds: Harvard is dead last, with only 9 players.
Even better than the glory that can only come from sitting in the sickly glow of a computer screen for months on end -- the competition ends in November -- one player from the winning school will win a plasma HDTV, surround sound stereo system, and Nintendo Wii as part of the TicketNetwork-sponsored "GoCrossRidiculousGiveAway." Sign up here and do your school proud.
Read more:
Storming the Campuses [New York Times]
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September 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
So now there’s an incentive for me to play rather than getting sixty emails a day from some shut-in on West who wants to hack my netID for sport? SWEET!