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Xbox Live Indie Game Pokes Fun at BP Oil Spill

By james_fudge

While it might some like poor taste to even consider making a joke about the continuing British Petroleum oil spill in the gulf (which is in its 70th day as of today), and Xbox Live Indie game developer has decided to go ahead and make a video game about it called "Crisis in the Gulf."

To be fair, the game doesn't go out of its way to make light of the situation, but rather the people allegedly handling the spill. The game, available for $1 on Xbox Live, was developed by Super Boise and goes out of its way to skewer both BP and Sarah Palin. Kotaku, who took some video of this tower defense game in action, calls it "not very much fun."

I can't say that we're shocked that an Xbox Live Indie Game might suck. If you hate Sarah Palin and BP it's probably worth a look. You can download the demo for free and try it yourselves before you part with that $1..

Source: Kotaku via Energy Boom Read More

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).