Mobile entertainment community Cellufun has launched The Mobile Ring, a free boxing game for mobile phones that pits US political heavyweights against one another in the ring. 
Mobile phone users can use their handsets to take out their frustrations on their favourite, or least favourite, 2008 election political candidates, without fear of prosecution. Thanks to the new Mobile Ring game from Cellufun, players can pit different candidates from either party against each other in an evolving virtual environment directly affected by their gameplay.
According to Cellufun, unscientific research shows that 98% of Democrats would love to bash the smirk off of Rudy Giulianis face and that 97% of Republicans want to severely muss up John Edwards $400 (200) haircut. Further unscientific research suggests that 100% of apathetic independents who are sick of the talking heads that round out the current campaign field, would just like to bash everyone and anyone they can get their (virtual) hands on, free of charge. This is why Cellufun believes the Mobile Ring game might just take off. 
Cellufun CEO, Arthur Goikhman, is confident of the new games mass appeal. He says:
Not all of us bother to vote, but its hard to find someone in America, or the world, for that matter, who hasnt felt like slugging it out with at least one of our candidates.
Players can choose to play the game as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, Tommy Thompson, or a slew of other contenders. Aside from being an exercise in catharsis, says Cellufun, there is a populist strain in the Mobile Ring game. Players can help their favourite long-shot candidates by uploading their high scores to Cellufun and affecting their performance in the game.
The initial release of the game will give each candidate a rating based on their current real-life poll position. Subsequently released updates of the game will take into account not only the real-life poll numbers, but actual performance by Mobile Ring players and which candidates got more wins or losses in the field. 
Essentially, players of Mobile Ring can help their favourite politicians campaign by voting with their thumbs, the companyb says. On the Cellufun website, users can vote on other characters for inclusion in later releases; either dark-horse candidates, cable television pundits or perhaps currently elected white house officials.
The Mobile Ring release marks not only the first political boxing game available for free on a mobile phone, but the first mobile action game whose characters strength changes based upon real-world events.
You can download the game for free at http://wap.cellufun.com