news game
n.— «It’s a kind of game we call news games.…They’re really like a video game equivalent of an editorial cartoon. They’re small scale, in-and-out quick games, like little editorials on current events.» —“An Airport Security Game That Rivals the Real Thing” by Joe Sharkey New York Times Jan. 16, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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