Today, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, but in the eye of a Fallout 3 player, who didn’t get a chance to visit Washington D.C., it was time for them to take a trip to his Inauguration, the only way a Fallout player could.

Using the influence of the post-apoplectic Washington in Fallout 3, a player was able to visit Barack Obama’s Inauguration site, and lucky, he was nice enough to bring back some pictures of his trip.

In his very short photo tour he starts off his trip to with a glimpse of the National Mall as viewed from the top of the crumbling Washington Monument. And to end his trip he finishes with a short glimpse to ground of the mall looking up at the Washington Monument.

Ending on that note, this is a very interesting look on today’s events because it’s both a very important history and an important part of  gamers around the universe that we call world.

Well, there once was that rumor going around that Obama and Palin will be playable characters in the hit EA game Mercenaries 2. When watching G4 today, yeah we watch it, I tuned into one of my favorite shows on the network, X-play, and in their Gaming Update they confirmed that both Barack Obama and Sarah Palin will be playable characters in Mercenaries 2.

“Mercenaries 2 is a game seemingly ripped straight out of today’s headlines and fueled with the same type of over-the-top action found in the best summer blockbuster films. It only makes sense we inject the game with a spin on current affairs. The timing was too good to let pass.” said Tom Stratton, Pandemic Studios.

[X-play's Gaming Update via G4TV]

In a speech given at a campaign stop in Indianapolis, Indiana, the senator addressed the problem of children being raised by video games. Here’s what he had to say:

I was just catching the news this morning about Grand Theft Auto, this video game, which is gonna break all records and make goo-gobs of money for whoever designed it. Now, this isn’t intended for kids, although I promise you there are kids who are playing it, but these video games are raising our kids…

Across the board, middle-class, upper-class, working-class kids, they’re spending a huge amount of their time not on their studies, but on entertainment.

And so part of our job is going to have to be to inspire the entire country to say, ‘How are we giving our kids a thirst for knowledge?’ And turning off the TV set, and getting them to be engaged and interested, like their future really does matter on how well they do in school.”

[Obama Name Checks GTA, Says Video Games Are Raising Our Children via Kotaku]