Online Drinking Game Kicking Up Criticism

Triangle Business Journal - by Amanda Jones Hoyle
For all the Facebook fans out there, a Chapel Hill gaming company is promoting a new online game called Drinking Buddies that encourages players to socialize with friends by sharing virtual, customizable drinks.
The game is attracting critics, who say it encourages drinking.

Game publisher Merscom of Chapel Hill has partnered with Drinking Buddies' developer, ChaYoWo Games of India, to launch the game on the social media site, Facebook, this week.

Drinking Buddies allows players to "purchase" either alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks to send to friends through Facebook, and the application tracks the friend's equilibrium based on the potency of the drinks they have received.

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