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Epic fail: No winners in climate change game

By Clint Witchalls

1 December 2010

The object of the game Fate of the World is to stop global warming, but don’t get your hopes up: you might just give koalas chlamydia instead

THE planet is doomed. At least, that’s what I’ve come to believe since playing a video game called . The object of the game is to prevent global warming and “reach the year 2120 with hope still intact”. I failed miserably at every turn.

The game, developed by , is one of a growing list of games aimed at players with a social conscience.…

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