Video games that explode political and social issues combining entertainment with serious themes. Follows the life of a syrian refugee and allows game as a direct insight into his life. This innocent looking game uses a sixteen bit retro look to depict the very real dangers of war the game enters the conflict zone in syria before making their way to europe. The games protectionist is actually. A twenty one year old syrian refugee who now lives in the austrian city of salzburg. He fled syria via turkey three years ago and was forced to leave his family behind. I was just like. Trying to escape as much as i can with playing video when there is electricity on. Its war in syria and youre eighteen more than eighteen years of. The military if youre going to join the military its either to kill someone or kill situation or scenario. Both wasnt an option for me. So he left and his passion for video games made his life in australia easier to. Later make from council creations against companies specialized in political and social content. The two of them then developed a demo version of path out. It gave me a chance to do something in connection with this crisis. And in the gaming world i can have quite a bit of leverage. So i could do something that might reach one hundred or a hundred thousand or even a Million People. We make a perfect team with abdullah perfected. The game begins at home the virtual Abdullah Karami is preparing for his departure syria scenarios alternate with like the moment and sometimes the real app to look around pops up on the screen to provide its unique commenters. Come on i mean we dont have calvin the three do not in my hometown or every hometown in syria. Path out is an example of the news game genre where Current Affairs stories are addressed in an entertaining way half the sky movement is a trans media project that raises awareness of womens issues. Not all get i mean while its about the war on drugs in mexico. One of the jurors biggest hits is this war of mine. For us it was about getting food place experience war from the perspective of a civilian instead of fighting stereotypical enemies they treat other peoples injuries or have to hide survival is the only reward the game has been a commercial success despite its serious content making two point five Million Euros in its first year. Economy we can only play with elves and spaceships games have more potential than that. Interactive Game Mechanics can be combined with politics. So theres a relevance to todays society. And the media provides a platform for discourse. With this medium. Path out will be released at the end of october on the games platform. Up to the quran hopes the game will help launch a successful career in the industry a career he might one day continue back home. To work as a designer and thats a dream. Its a long way to do it to achieve it. Will get there hours when a lot of creative people. Shift says good luck. In todays rankings section the most dangerous celebrities on the internet. Number five celine dion the canadian singer is pretty perilous although not because of her music cybersecurity from mcafee has found out which celebrities are most likely to land users on websites that carry viruses all malware. If you google celine dions youre in dangerous waters some twelve point nine percent of searches lead to pages that have potential for online trends. In fourth spot is british pop singers a manic formerly of boy band one direction hes looking a bit mean of these days and his search results are downright dangerous if users can end up in trouble in thirteen percent of cases. Number three cali ray jepson her greatest hits call me maybe gone and over a million hits and inspired many parodies chances of catching a virus lion thirteen point two percent. Number two is bruno modest their hugely popular and prolific singing and dancing hawaiian but where if you look him up on the net thirteen point four percent of searches lead to dodgy content the thing. And the number one Avril Lavigne she hasnt released an album in yet is but its still very risky to search for her online fourteen point five percent of the searches are hazardous. That with this weeks ranking and now or thomas vehicles all the future the cities of the world are congested and public transport systems are overloaded and some local authorities in europe and now testing mini buses that drive them. Selves. This bus in estonias capital tallinn might not have a driver but the passengers on its get. The feel very slowly but this is not a test track the bus is navigating its way through the center of town the biggest challenge for these driverless vehicles is when they have to deal with human drivers. Just feel like that its much easier for self driving vehicles to be on the road with other self driving vehicles its much more complicated when they have to communicate with humans when they have to understand what a human driver might do in a certain situation. This is likely to be a Lengthy Development ive been involved. Thanks to cameras census and radars the bus is constantly monitored so any obstacles can be avoided in real time. Theres also a test operation in paris between the stations god. And god boston. The doors open and close automatically at every stop the bus can take up to twelve passengers. So they speak to its surrounding environment and even to pedestrians that might cross in front of it. In this case it will either slow down or perform an emergency stop if someone suddenly jumps out in front of it the front of it the technology seems to work so far they have been no accidents either in paris or stony. The self driving buses on new father drivers and for the police but weve had good experiences so far. There havent been any accidents because the buses are also being tested in berlin although so far only on one route around the University Campus but the developers have big plans for the future. And youll be able to stand outside one building and use an up to ask a car to pick you up and take you to the other side of the campus. Want to get in fines passengers will eventually be able to have a bus to take them home from the train station or subway stop. So no one will have to rely on set schedules thanks to an Intelligent Network the buses will go precisely where theyre told. Says its not shuttles for the future. Now a short and sweet shift now show its. Feet on it is an unmanned drone that can avoid obstacles around your home it can be controlled remembering via or respond to spoken instruction was like any self respecting modern gadget of course it can also take three hundred sixty degree picture. This flying above to get a system for the home is equipped with all the with the dre off the digital age that is also needed for controlling self driving cars Artificial Intelligence so now sam says and stereo cameras for vision. Smart home owners are the target audience for the on the crowdfunding platform kickstarter. But seriously now who really wants to be a constant observation at home by a hovering humming drug. For the time being at least the an i can only function for about eight minutes before it has to be recharged. That was the snapshot do you want to. Find out more about the Digital World then check out our Facebook Page d. W. 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And so does everything i give. To the billion people who care about me. Me me. And now. I need. This is d. W. News law from berlin tonight iraqi and Kurdish Forces clashing amid predictions of a new civil war there were celebrations in kirkuk as iraqi forces seized control of key sites in and around the kurdish held city today the military move