Heh, I just found this funny as an old assembly afficionado. Apparently there's a game coming from the guy who made Minecraft in which you control a spaceship far off in the future in a freeroaming universe. Nothing novel in that, however the ship is controlled by a computer which is fully simulated/emulated and has a made-up 16-bit CPU called the DCPU16. In order to control the way the ship works you will write programs (which you can trade with other fellow gamers, it's supposedly a MMO) and although the game is far off the developer released the cpu specs which has lead to lot's of people creating emulators for this made up cpu and of course, an assembler:
http://onlinehut.org/2012/04/assembler-for-dcpu16/
I see an assembly code renessance coming on :DÂ
Seriously I could see myself buying this game just to write some assembly code to control my ship, can't help myself I find this cool despite it being kinda pointless.
Here's the background on the game: http://0x10c.com/
that sounds like fun
problem is - we get a bunch of gamers in here asking how to write code for this "hypothetical" CPU :P
maybe we can charge em money - 10% to Hutch, of course