DEFCON (video game)

DEFCON
Developer(s)	Introversion Software
Publisher(s)	NA: Encore Software EU: Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Designer(s)	Chris Delay Gary Chambers
Composer(s)	Alistair Lindsay Michael Maidment
Platform(s)	Windows Mac OS X Linux
Release	Windows WW: 29 September 2006 (Steam) NA: 26 March 2007 EU: 15 June 2007 OS X 19 April 2007 Linux 11 December 2012
Genre(s)	Real-time strategy
Mode(s)	Zero-player, singleplayer and multiplayer

DEFCON (stylised as DEFCOИ and sometimes subtitled Everybody Dies in the North American version and Global Thermonuclear War in the European version) is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software. The gameplay is a simulation of a global nuclear war, with the game's screen reminiscent of the "big boards" that visually represented thermonuclear war in films such as Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, and especially WarGames.

The game has been available by download since September 29, 2006 through Introversion's web store and Steam. On 5 April 2007, publisher Encore announced they would be publishing the game in the United States, and had ordered an initial 50,000 copies of the game for retail.^[1] In the UK it was released for retail on 15 June 2007 and for a limited period included the developer's first game Uplink.