Global Thermonuclear War

Joystiq reports that, from the makers of Darwinia and Uplink comes DEFCON, what appears to be a global nuclear war strategy title. Looks positively Wargames-tastic. From the EvilAvatar post they reference: "The new game, titled DEFCON, is a multiplayer strategy which pitches two players against one another in a game of Global Thermonuclear War. In DEFCON a player must manage their launch silos in an attempt to defend their major cities against nuclear attack while simultaneously launching their own attacks against the other player."

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It would be more interesting if...

[EnronHaliburton2004]

It would be more interesting if Slashdot actually linked to a Blog article that contained some sort of content. Instead, you link to an empty blog article, which means I need to hunt around on the site to find all articles by This guy and scroll down his list of recent entries....

Sorta silly, dontcha think? Trying to generate more pageviews or something?

Re:Does anyone remember that old DOS game?

[EnronHaliburton2004]

No, I think that people are under the conception that the 100,000 1-Megaton nukes shared between the former-USSR and the US could take out wide swaths of the world.

You are probably too young to remember much about the Cold War, but I grew up in the Reagan Era, and yeah we did have incredibly paranoid discussions like "Well the Soviets are targetting the nearby airforce base but luckily we are greater then 11.7 Kilometers from ground zero." ... Seriously!