Emergency excitement online

Video game Zero Hour: America’s Medic lets responders try out real-time strategies in hazardous virtual environments, with sound effects and human conversations, just like those in the hugely-popular Halo game series (don't know Halo? Ask a male teenager). The game was created by those zany fun-lovers at the US Dept of Homeland Security and George Washington University’s National Emergency Medical Services Preparedness Initiative (NEMSPI). It can take a good long while to load; clear some bandwidth and grab a cup of coffee.

Can’t wait? This is a minute-and-a-half YouTube video of the screen action.

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Nathaniel Forbes

Nathaniel Forbes is the director of Forbes Calamity Prevention, a Singapore-based consulting firm providing business continuity, crisis management and emergency response advice and training to multinational companies, with a focus on companies with offices in Asia. The firm is 10 years old. FCP's current and past clients include Singapore Exchange Ltd, OCBC Bank, AXA Insurance, The Gillette Company, Siemens and ABN Amro Bank. A former President of the Singapore Computer Society’s Business Continuity Group, Nathaniel passed the DRII’s Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) examination in 1997. He has lived, traveled or worked in Asia since 1973.