Sunday, August 11, 2013

Play this: 'Eddy's Run' turns Edward Snowden's story into a Flash-based side-scroller


President Obama may not consider Edward Snowden a patriot, and he's likely not alone in that assessment. But to some, the NSA leaker is nothing short of a hero. Among Snowden's many supporters is a game development studio out of Germany called Binji. After two weeks of working "night and day," the company has produced Eddy's Run — The Prism Prison, a side-scroller browser game it describes as a "deep thank you" and "a bow" to Snowden, You're placed in the shoes of Eddy and tasked with avoiding secret agents, deadly drones, surveillance cameras, and other threats in your quest to evade a pursuing government.


Unsurprisingly, reporters serve as your allies along the way. Talking to them gets you four exploding laptops which serve as the...


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