Check this out: Storming the Campuses article in the New York Times
“Eleven thousand Ivy League students and alumni have played out these scenarios as part of an online computer game called GoCrossCampus, or GXC. The game, a riff on classic territorial-conquest board games like Risk, may be the next Internet phenomenon to emerge from the computers of college students”.
I think this is really great. If it is indeed along the lines of RISK (which it looks like it is), this could be a great game for exercising the brain and strengthening strategic thinking.