The UK General Election is set to take place this week, and there's an exciting digital partnership playing to election content: Roblox and the BBC.
The BBC is bringing Larry the Downing Street Cat — iconic Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office and pet-in-residence at the official home of the UK Prime Minister — to Roblox for this election.
Larry, along with digital avatars of BBC presenters like Laura Kuenssberg, Clive Myrie, and Jeremy Vine, will appear in a game that requires players to track down ballot boxes outside 10 Downing Street. If you find enough boxes, Larry will become your pet (whether or not you share Larry with the PM is unclear). While playing, Roblox users will also be shown facts about UK elections.
The game will be a part of the BBC’s Wonder Chase experience, which has been around on Roblox since April of this year. Wonder Chase, a free experience on Roblox, features a range of areas dedicated to BBC shows like Doctor Who, EastEnders, and The Next Step.
"I’ve never imagined being a gaming character before," says Kuenssberg, long-time political presenter at the BBC, "but like never before, in 2024 the BBC’s coverage of the election really IS getting everywhere." Fiona Campbell, controller of youth audience for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer says that the game is "an engaging and fun way to learn more about the country’s election whilst interacting with our top political experts."
The UK's General Election will take place on July 4, with millions of people in the country headed to the polls to vote despite "mass apathy" towards the presiding political parties.
TopicsBBCGaming
(责任编辑：休閑)
Fiji wins first
A new 'Game of Thrones' beer is here to mark the arrival of winter
G20 summit shows Trump took U.S. from first to worst on climate change in under a year
Bizarre wearable wants to shock you awake so you don’t fall asleep at the wheelOlympian celebrates by ordering an intimidating amount of McDonald'sIvanka Trump's unpaid interns share cringeworthy financial advice
Ivanka Trump's interns have some questionable advice for students worried they can't afford an unpai
...[详细]The MLB apparently thinks the 'Overwatch' League logo is too similar to its own
The OverwatchLeague logo fits pretty well into the pantheon of traditional sports league logos. Majo
...[详细]Sorry, casual fans, but Captain Spip of the 'Biowhale Deep Space' series is NOT a woman
SIGH. Here we go again. I feel like everywhere I turn I'm hearing the question we've all heard since
...[详细]How to protest online for the Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
Five years ago, the internet successfully rallied against two pieces of legislation that activists a
...[详细]WhatsApp announces plans to share user data with Facebook
Big changes are coming to WhatsApp. 。On Thursday, WhatsApp announced in a blog post it will begin sha
...[详细]'Stranger Things' on a monochrome monitor is so perfectly '80s
Let's all thank the internet for Wahyu Ichwandardi, an illustrator and animator who thought it
...[详细]Ryan Gosling reveals more of 'Blade Runner 2049' on Twitter
Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to one of the most lauded science fiction films of all time, just leak
...[详细]One of largest icebergs ever recorded just broke off Antarctica
One of the largest icebergs ever recorded -- measuring about the size of Delaware and containing a v
...[详细]Darth Vader is back. Why do we still care?
They saved the best for last in the first official trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, release
...[详细]Hulk talk better in 'Thor: Ragnarok' (and refuse turn back into Banner)
It's been a couple of years since Bruce Banner started turning into the Hulk in the MCU timeline, so
...[详细]Olympian celebrates by ordering an intimidating amount of McDonald's
Airbnb host fined for racist comment on cancellation
