The American presidential election invites itself into the world of video games

"Unpresidential!", A free mobile game and parody of the fight to remake the match Trump vs Biden -

• Protect Donald Trump in

  GTA

  , visit Joe Biden's HQ in

  Animal Crossing

  ... American political figures invest in video games

• For them, it is a gateway to reaching the 18-34 age group

• With the French game

  Unpresidential

  , repeat the election with punches and punchlines

Supporters of US President Donald Trump can add his character in some video games and even protect him from assassination attempts in the Faithless Universe of

.

Across the political spectrum, players can visit Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden at his headquarters on

.

"Video games, a gateway to politics"

By investing in the world of video games, political figures have reproduced the fractures of real life, arousing the disapproval of some players who complain of an invasion of their fictional universes.

“Video games will be used more and more as a gateway to politics, predicts Renee Gittins, executive director of the International Association of Video Game Developers.

People no longer watch commercials on television.

You have to go where the audience is and, to a large extent, it is in video games.

"

Almost four in ten American gamers are between the ages of 18 and 34, according to a recent study by Statista.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently had a resounding success on Twitch, streaming a portion of the

game live

, watched by over 430,000 people.

The newly elected New York Democrat competed against famous broadcasters on the platform for more than three hours, subtly distilling political messages and getting spectators to vote on November 3.

A few days later,

was the target of hackers to spread pro-Trump messages.

highlights from the @AOC among us stream - my love for this woman knows no bounds 💖 https://t.co/aZErKVAlVw pic.twitter.com/OCa06KMuob

- lindsay (@levlinds) October 21, 2020

"Is it still possible to escape reality?

"

Some of these initiatives are not to the liking of all players.

When Sony introduced a free theme in support of the "Black Lives Matter" movement on its PlayStation consoles, some expressed their displeasure.

“Video games are made for games, not for political or social movements,” Yuri Kazuto Cinque wrote on Twitter.

For the trouble, he will not buy the new PlayStation 5. "Is it still possible to escape reality?

“Asked another tweeter, Justin Raposo.

But other players recall that politics is already present in the plot of many titles.

The action of FPS often takes place in dystopian cities, where the characters fight against tyrannical or corrupt regimes.

In the

series

, the player evolves for example in an underwater world, ravaged by the excesses of unbridled capitalism.

hero

is an American who fought the Nazis in World War II.

We redo the election

On the Steam video game distribution platform, a section is devoted to political titles.

In the

strategy game

, the goal is to become, by any means possible, the President of the United States.

In France, the 3D Bright studio has developed

, a parody and free fighting game (iOS, Android) where Donal Trump and Joe Biden face each other with punches and other punchlines.

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