Climate change challenge for computer gamers | Environment | The Guardian

They've previously tackled alien invasions, gang violence in New York and how to raise a happily family, but this week computer games wrestle with an even more pressing issue: climate change. Arriving on PCs Tuesdayand Macs shortly, the British-made Fate of the World puts players at the helm of a future World Trade Organisation-style environmental body with a task of saving the world by cutting carbon emissions or damning it by letting soaring temperatures wreak havoc through floods, droughts and fires.

Fate of the World – review | Technology | The Guardian

As if the sheer difficulty of Fate of the World wasn't sobering enough, watching the planet crumble – wars and natural disasters are often triggered inadvertently by your decisions, and you're informed each time a major species becomes extinct – really brings home the enormity of the impact of climate change.