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# A League of Debit Card Legends, playing the news in Portugeuse, and they found Snowden! (In a game.)
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/cheat-sheet-813/
- Published: 2013-08-13T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:08:47.000Z
- Description: Help is on the way…
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, cheat sheet, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

German developer Binji has made *[Eddy’s Run](http://www.eddysrun.com/?ref=killscreen.com)*, inspired by Edward Snowden’s global game of hide-and-seek with the American government. Thirty years ago this would have been a protest song recorded on acoustic steel-string guitars.

Libraries have found a way to attract kids to the stacks: [Let ‘em play games.](http://www.npr.org/2013/08/11/209584333/at-libraries-across-america-its-game-on?ref=killscreen.com)

A week to brainstorm, design and create an Interesting First-Person Shooter? That’s the goal of [7DFPS](http://killscreendaily.com/7DFPS.com?ref=killscreen.com), the second annual game jam taking place this week with Notch, Brendan Chung (*Atom Zombie Smasher*), and Ed Key (*Proteus)* among the attendees. (Image above from Terry Cavanagh’s prototype last year.)

Brazilian youth magazine *Superinteressante* is using Newsgames, interactive stories that recreate real scenarios and ask you to take part, to [bring world events to its readers’ attention.](http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/journalism-and-video-games-come-together-as-a-new-form-of-storytelling-in-brazil/?ref=killscreen.com)

> “We are about loyalty, we are about contact and long-lasting engagement. This is an ideal fit from an audience perspective.”

Stefan Happ, General Manager for American Express’s mobile division, on [partnering with Riot Games, makers of *League of Legends*, to release a pre-paid debit card](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/business/media/amex-links-a-debit-card-to-an-online-video-game.html?ref=killscreen.com) emblazoned with the game’s characters, offering users in-game bonuses.