Whether you think that sharks are heartless killing machines with unmatched power and appetite or destructive, vicious beasts, the sole creature God fashioned while listening to speed metal, you've got to admit that they. are. rad. The way we see it, Discovery Channel's Shark Week is really the best reason to have cable, because it reminds you that no matter what you're thinking about the moment, sharks have one thing on their mind: Eating you.
Now that the week to end all others has come to an end, it's become harder to keep our thirst for sharks in check, so you can imagine how grateful we were to find Sharkrunners, a free, online game that casts you as a researcher tooling around the Pacific Ocean looking for sharks. It was made by area/code, which you may remember from their location-based piracy game, Plundr.
The interesting thing is that the sharks you're following are real, and their locations are provided by real-world telemetry data. So when you find a great white in the game, you can know that its an actual shark that would like nothing more than to bite you in half. Sort of makes rumble seem last-gen, doesn't it?
Sharkrunners fans our passion ... for sharks
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