"videogames" news and stories

It looks like food is space invading the video game world. We've seen a couple of games already: fun games like Diner Dash and Cooking Mama for the Nintendo DS Lite, as well as educational games like Food Force from the UN's World Food Programme. 

Cake Mania, previously an online-game, is fresh out of the oven, frosted, boxed, and headed to the PC. The game, called a perfect balance between "fun and educational" in the PC-version will have additional levels.

Something to do while you're waiting for your muffins to cool, I think.

Not all video games are horrible. Just try out the simulation called Food Force, in which players take on six missions to help feed millions of hungry people in a place called Sheylan in the Indian Ocean. 

The game, freely downloadable off of Yahoo, was created by, of all groups, the United Nations. The UN has a sub-organization called the World Food Programme (WFP) whose mission is "halving the proportion of hungry people in the world." The game is mostly educational, representing to players what the day to day tasks of the WFP are: from determining a what a balanced diet for the people of Sheylan would be to figuring out they best way to distribute aid. No guns, no shooting, but there are a few helicopter rides.