Two of the most prominent have been decades in the activist game, or something like it.
As a 20-year-old woman who is crashing through barriers, perhaps even more than as an African-American turning a country club sport upside down, Venus is already ahead in the social activist game.
Why did no one at Microsoft know right from the start that this would happen, when all of us – female journalists, activists, game developers and engineers who live online every day and could have predicted it – are talking about it all the time?
While for most of us Twitter is either an afterthought or an innocuous pastime, for many, including activists, game designers, and folks who are trying to do good (or bad) in the world it is a platform and a source for input and discussion.
The activists' game plan could be called preventive disclosure, or strategic shaming. .
In 1970, Heldman persuaded the woman who would become her main accomplice, Billie Jean King - the most effective player activist the game has known - and seven others to accept $1 contracts to launch the Virginia Slims Circuit with a tournament in Houston.
Thompson is known for his role as an anti-video-game activist, particularly against violence and sex in video games.
You can call yourself a shareholder activist, but his game is the same".
The "Cat in the Hat" and another activist started a game of hide and seek in the training area, which includes rainforests, dunes and swamps.
With three weeks until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, activists are busy cranking out yet another round of anti-sweat shop campaigns and shock-horror exposes.
