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Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.

The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.
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A Macworld Newsgame
by Ian Bogost January 15, 2008
categories: Newsgames
Today is Macworld, Apple's big trade event in which Steve Jobs puts on a black shirt and shows the latest shiny Apple gadgets. It's a hugely anticipated thing for geeks of all operating system persuasions. While you're waiting for whatever products might be announced, you can play SteveNote Expo, a little MacWorld newsgame. Gameplay involves collecting things Jobs needs before his keynote while avoiding the mobbing press. The idea is clever but it feels a little abstract or disconnected. The visual style and viewpoint reminds me of one of my favorite Mac games of yore, Harry the Handsome Executive.