This research project examines the way in which the Arab Spring Revolutions (ASRs) are presented in journalistic discourse metaphorically, leading to highlighting or hiding specific ideologies dealing with political issues and agents related to the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions from 2011 to 2013. Alon the lines of Charteris-Black’s (2004) corpus-based approach of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), we identify, explain and interpret at the semantic, pragmatic and cognitive levels of analysis the principal political issues and agents expressed metaphorically in the corpus data. This research project points at three main findings obtained: (i) certain source domains had been manipulated in order to report diverse aspects of ASRs, being the main and dominant domain that of games; (ii) the corpus, based on the conceptual idea of THE ARAB SPRING REVOLUTIONS ARE GAMES built around the competition image schema, turned out to be textually coherent; and (iii) gamification in this case covered three different scenarios: (a) the game general frame, (b) clusters of individual vs. team games, as well as bodily-oriented vs. mentally-oriented games, and (c) the representation of games as a war. All those ideologically based conceptual metaphors built within the frame of gamification are recognised as typically Western.