GoCrossCampus May Be The Next Facebook

Eleven thousand Ivy League students and alumni have played out attacks on rival campuses as part of an online computer game called GoCrossCampus, or GXC. The game, a riff on classic territorial-conquest board games like Risk, may be the next Internet phenomenon to emerge from the computers of college students. The rules of GXC are relatively simple. Every player is allocated a number of armies each day and must coordinate attacks, troop movements and defensive maneuvers with teammates. No one is claiming this is the next Facebook, the social networking phenomenon that began on the Harvard campus. But GoCrossCampus represents the new kind of online games that unite the participants of real-world communities in a common online cause. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/technology/21ivygame.html?th&emc=th