U.S. contest challenges video-game makers to battle climate change

By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Video-game developers are competing this week in a contest that will reward games that combat neither mortal enemies nor monsters but climate change. The contest taps the creativity of video-game makers to address the serious issue of climate change, said the head of the competition, Susanna Pollack. Players must build a civilization and develop technology to knock an incoming meteor off course while weighing how each move affects looming