I was just reminded of the urgency of getting my US postal vote to the powers that be by the November election by Lara Croft. Yes, it may seem incongruous, but the British busty brunette is part of a campaign with MTV to get the youth to tick that important box on November 2nd. Go on kids, tick the one with the donkey!
Personal politics aside (you can vote for the elephant if you want to), Variety.com, Gamasutra and /. report that Lara's joined by Sonic the Hedgehog, Tony Hawk and Leisure Suit Larry, plus 50 other game favourites to stir the Nation's eligible Generation X, Y and Z'ers out of post-teen political apathy. VG Unity: Stand and Choose (gag me with a spoon, marketing department) will be webcast on the network's PRElection site before hitting the televisual airwaves across the MTV channels. Registration is required to see it, and you can register to vote at the same time.
I suspect anti-game senators like Joseph Liebermann never imagined they'd end up relying upon game characters to get votes.
If you can't vote in the US elections but feel the sympathetic need to vote for something, you can have your say for your favourite game character of all time to be inducted into the Walk of Game.
