DEFCON Released Today

VVrath writes "Independent developers (and bedroom programmers), Introversion are releasing their third game, DEFCON at 6pm GMT today. As the successor to the sleeper hit Uplink and the IGF award winning Darwinia, this is one of the most eagerly awaited indy games of this year. Based on the game of thermonuclear war played in the film WarGames, DEFCON gives you the opportunity to nuke the hell out of your friends (and enemies), with the player who loses the least crowned victorious. With this being Introversion's first game for sale by download only (it's available on Steam as well as through their own website), does this mark the end of indy games being sold in shops?"

23 years.

[Tackhead]

> Is it a game, or is it real?
What's the difference?

23 years since Stanislav Petrov [wikipedia.org] decided not to play.

And 23 years since I saw the movie WarGames.

Thanks, Stanislav. Because you chose not to play, we all get to play!

I Think I've Played This Before

[vjmurphy]

On the Amiga: http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/nucl earw.htm [gamespy.com]

and on the tabletop (for you youngsters, we used to play games using playing surfaces made from compressed paper products that involved actually having people in the same room):

http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/nucwar.htm [flyingbuffalo.com]