A Video Game Based on a War You've Probably Never Heard of

There’s too many games set in the Middle East, and there are/were too many games set during the Second World War. Common complaints, which imply a desire for people to be able to see conflicts beyond the most prominent, but would you ever want to play a game set in a war you’ve likely never heard of? Farid Hagverdiev, a n98 19-year-old student at Baku’s State Oil Academy, has developed pp slot a game called İşgal Altında: Şuşa, or “Under Occupation”. It’s set during the brief tussle between Armenia and Azerbaijan super slot over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in 1992, and lets the player assume the role of an Azerbaijani soldier trying to liberate the city of Shusha from the enemy.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5936774","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); It’s pretty rough, as you can see, but it’s interesting for a lot more than it’s stilted knife kills. The game is basically a piece of propaganda. Hagverdiev says “By creating the game we wanted to support the patriotic spirit in our youth, which I hope we accomplished successfully”, and Under Occupation also has the support of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Youth and Sports. Azerbaijan: Video Game Revisits Nagorno-Karabakh War [Eurasianet, via GamePolitics]