ImpactGames, creators of PeaceMaker, have just soft-launched a public version of their title Play the News. new web-based news prediction game. It's a bit like fantasy sports, in that you play by predicting future performance, but instead of assembling a custom news docket, you play smaller mini-games for each story. These smaller games cover the gamut of news coverage, from politics to entertainment. Here's some of their boilerplate on the game. I played during the beta, albeit admittedly less than I'd hoped. The experience is very casual, which is surely the goal, although the concept does somewhat risk collapsing into quiz-style questions and best-guesses. That said, there is the potential for the game to change people's engagement with news both by making them think about what will happen next and by creating a natural reason to read stories one otherwise might not. This is still a soft-launch, so things may change, but you can play for free.