Gamers Helping Public Diplomacy. Proven Success: Official US Public Policy Is Already "I PK U RL N00B."

Don't these guys know that there's already a near simulation of all the intrigue (backstabbing), negotiation (backstabbing), and alliance-making(backstabbing) of real diplomacy? Evidently not. The USC Center for Public Diplomacy is sponsoring a game design contest to "design, conceive, and build a game or game prototype that employs the principles of public diplomacy." I think it's been done in the link above, fellas.

If it hasn't...