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Game 1: Stop Abusive Naturalization Protect the Swiss against foreign overpopulation by intercepting as many passports as possible, which the Leftists and Greens irresponsibly distribute. Catch the passports before they fall into the wrong hands. Steer Zottel left and right with the arrow keys. Use the spacebar to kick aside the judge.

Game 2: Stop Criminal Foreigners
Eject black sheep that represent foreign criminals
Return the black sheep back where they came from. Control Zottel with the mouse. Move quickly and click the mouse to eject the black sheep and buses full of sheep back across the border. Don't touch the white sheep please!"

Game 3: End EU Taxation
The EU wants more power, influence, and money. This is why it wants to impose its fiscal regime on Switzerland.
Shoot the hats off the EU taxmen before they can plunder our reserves. Move the sight with the mouse and clock to shoot. Shoot the bags of money before it makes it to the EU. Stop the taxmen!

Game 4: Suppress Increasing Governmental Shenanigans
Collect the radar stations placed around the country. The Greens complicate matters by imposing speed limits. Advance against the Greens to engage them in combat. Use the arrow keys to move Zottel.

The message apparently isn't too repugnant in Switzerland, as the SVP has a healthy showing in the national government - but I don't think an innocuously cute goat and new fangled technology can make up for wacky and extremist messages.

Right-Wing Swiss Political Games [Water Cooler Games]

Maybe I'm not totally hormonal. One reader actually got the same warm and fuzzy feeling encountering a little invader of his own.

In response to your Invader - Amsterdam story, this is a picture we took in Lausanne, Switzerland. Right around here.

Thanks for making me aware of the artist. We thought we stumbled upon one-of-a-kind video game art, but it's cooler knowing that there are others like this out there.

That's so touching, I think I'm going to cry. Like a lot. Thanks for the tip, Ramdust! Kim Phu

Both Germany and Switzerland had copies of CONSOUL forced on innocent citizens. So, how did the PS3 launch turn out in each country? Let's start with Germany. Things are always interesting in Germany.

Reader Sebastian did a quick translation of a German article covering the Berlin midnight launch. Somewhere between 150 and 200 people showed up at the Sony Center (Berlin's population is over 3 million). There was a stage event involved either A). Boy in his underwear or B). Bald man jumping on an Xbox 360 and calling it "junk." Don't you just love it when Germans jump on stuff? What's more, at an electronics chain called Saturn, customers could climb a wall and chuck their own Xbox 360 down, destroying it. Fifty people could get free PS3s by doing so. Don't you just love it when Germans break stuff? I'm sure the clever ones brought their bricked Xbox 360s!

After the jump, reader James sends in a report for the peaceful Swiss PS3 launch. Brian Ashcraft

James writes:

My route to the store took me past a large electronics chain called Interdiscount which was due to open at 9am whereas Manor, the shop I took pics of before and only 500 yards away, opened at 8.30. What surprised me was that 2 people were actually waiting for it to open.

James apologizes for the pic quality as he was diving into a tram, but points out that the store did have a security guard which he says is "very un-Swiss." We agree. That is so un-Swiss. Brian Ashcraft

German Midnight Launch [Golem, Thanks Sebastian!]

Gadzooks! Reader James stumbled a heap of Wiis earlier today. He writes:

This morning while heading to work I decided against my normal route, choosing instead to brave the chilly air and take a more long winded scenic stroll. This route to work happened to take me past one of the larger department stores in Switzerland, Manor. Proudly displayed in the entrance way were 2 Wii kiosks and a shed load of Wiis.

Not a shed load, James. A shit load. All those people wanting Wiis, go to Switzerland. Like, now. Brian Ashcraft

On Sale Today [James' Site]

Let's see how many literary references I can cram into one post about hookers, shall we?

A tittilating and timorous tip just fluttered into the ol' Kotaku carrier pigeon hutch, courtesy of the man they call Adam. Get the gentleman a comment account.

According to a globetrotting member of the FAZED Forums, at least one high-class Swiss brothel is in possession of a strange device that can only be one thing. "Bashturn", almost certainly a distant and more successful cousin of the Kotaku Bashcrafts, utters:

Add all this to the fact that this entire house is designed to entertain men. Pool tables, big screen TVs, comfiest couches in the world, even a Nintendo console not even on the market yet (Buggy to the point of gathering dust, so I was told). The entire house is designed so that you want to stay an extra day.

Emphasis mine. The rest of the thread is decidedly un-game-related, but still vastly intriguing. I may be addressing the wrong audience here, but if any of you have read Nabokov's Ada, you may remember the series of extremely classy bordellos that Van Veen opens across the globe. The Swiss establishment in question sounds exactly like one of these franchises. Either this Bashturn is a modern-day Munchausen, or he's rocking it James Bond style.

Crap, I think that was only two. I'll do better next time. Eliza gauger

Read whole thread here. [FAZED]