Re-Mission is a video game designed to help young cancer patients cope with their illness while educating them, and "increas[ing] players' sense of control over their circumstances." You play a nanobot named Roxxi sent into a cancer patient's body -- think Fantastic Voyage or Innerspace -- to blast away at "rapidly multiplying rogue cells." When James Paul Gee mentioned at GDC that he wanted to see "Serious Games" like Full Spectrum Virus, he was probably envisioning something just like Re-Mission.

The game, created by HopeLab, was conceived by Pam Omidyar (wife of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar) as a way to help kids dealing with cancer. Pat Christen, the current president of HopeLab, writes in this month's Wired, "In April, [we'll] begin distri­buting Re-Mission for free in treatment centers and over the Web. We hope this game will be our first effort in a series of unusual approaches to helping sick kids - and a good excuse for teens with cancer to grab the game controller and start blasting away."