#Hacked: Syria’s Electronic Armies
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Al Jazeera English’s #Hacked mobile game takes you inside the Syrian cyberwar

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Al Jazeera English is launching a mobile game about the Syrian cyberwar.

The company is debuting an interactive mobile app experience, dubbed #Hacked: Syria’s Electronic Armies, which takes the network’s investigative journalism and puts it into the format of a game. In #Hacked, you have five days to find out the identity of Syrian hackers in an online battle that can be as deadly as the real ground war.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.