College Rivals Online Video Game

Apparently, a new online video game is out that was created at Yale last September. It's called GoCrossCampus (GXC).

The game is a competition between colleges, specific groups on just one campus, or even companies. The idea is to win and takeover the most(or all) territory. There are ten different competitions going on at the web site now. A couple of them are over and have a winner. Some of the games have hundreds of people competiting. One example of a game that I saw was called the Florida Championship and many schools in Florida were competiting in this game including, The University of Florida, Florida State, Florida Atlantic, and University of South Florida.

The GXC Overview on the web site said:

10 games
22,356 players
80 teams
182,911 chat posts
1,636,857 armies placed
182 commanders elected
42 commanders impeached
376 spies convicted
1,829 territories conquered

This is also used as a social site during the games because you can chat with people.
One girl in the NYT article said she started playing the game because her mom played and had reconnected with some of her college friends through the web site.

It sounds pretty interesting, kinda funny, but I could understand if you started playing this that it would become addicting. And now there is competition arising with a similar game called Turf. There is more information about this game in Brad Stone's article in the New York Times.