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2006-05-26 Caribbean-Latin America
US video game angers Chavez allies in Venezuela
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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-26 09:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Hugo's a little late, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter takes place in Mexico City. He's got to wait his turn. Heh.

Actually, Hugo et al should take advantage of all this convergence and get a PR firm to sell their likeness to a game development company like the sports stars. It'll make a nice little nest egg for retirement or a good set of lawyers in the future.
Posted by Clealing Gletle3270 2006-05-26 09:42||   2006-05-26 09:42|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-26 10:14||   2006-05-26 10:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah. Future games could feature a fat slob little Venezuelan, in a sash and a too tight suit flinging all his sprocket medals at Delta Force like ninja stars...
Posted by tu3031 2006-05-26 10:15||   2006-05-26 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Dayamn. I just realized that if some gaming company made a total war in Iran game, they would become wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-26 11:03||   2006-05-26 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 shouldnt Hugo have objected to Tropico?
Posted by liberalhawk 2006-05-26 11:29||   2006-05-26 11:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Hello. Would you like to play a game?

I suggest "Global Thermonuclear Combat."
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-05-26 11:30||   2006-05-26 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 How many points to score a sprocket?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-26 11:32||   2006-05-26 11:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Vice City 12: Caracas Smackdown
Posted by Phump 2006-05-26 11:42||   2006-05-26 11:42|| Front Page Top

#9 A power-hungry tyrant messes with Venezuela's oil supply, sparking an invasion that turns the country into a war zone

Don't worry about it Hugo, they couldn't possibly have been REFERRING TO YOU.
Posted by DMFD 2006-05-26 14:47||   2006-05-26 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Hello. Would you like to play a game?

I suggest "Global Thermonuclear Combat."

Sorry, the game is currently in use by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How 'bout a nice game of checkers instead?
Posted by DMFD 2006-05-26 14:49||   2006-05-26 14:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Octagon.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-05-26 20:03||   2006-05-26 20:03|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-26 10:14||   2006-05-26 10:14|| Front Page Top

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