This hass a different slant: you battle virtual alien invaders with real-life punches and crunches.
As the euro crisis drags on, things will get worse for ordinary folk, impacting on the real lives and economies of Europe in the form of unemployment, slashed benefits, credit crunches, banking crises, and company closures.
It crunches census data to identify Kenya's poorest districts, including Mr Anoche's home village of Koga, near Lake Victoria.
Software that crunches piles of information can spot things that may not be apparent to the naked eye.
Every time the OBR crunches its numbers the peak rises and the happy horizon at which the government's pile of IOUs starts to shrink recedes.
Since two central banks have suffered devastating crunches recently (Tajikistan in 2007, Zimbabwe in 2009) the standard logic seems to apply: capital-eroding losses must be avoided.But the worries are overdone.
Mr Buffett crunches piles of numbers in the search for undervalued companies, then holds their shares indefinitely.
It takes old utility bills, the square foot measurement of the building, a few other bits of information and crunches all this into a percentile rating.
The banks' ability to cope with liquidity crises and credit crunches is harder to gauge.Financial markets send out mixed messages about the confidence of investors in the institutions themselves.
The bot crunches data from plays over the past 13 years to determine the optimal call for any given fourth down.
Opower, a data-analytics firm, crunches figures on size, occupancy, location and energy bills to find trends and make suggestions to 50m, mostly American, households.
