Two weeks ago over at Persuasive Games, we announced that the NY Times would be publishing our newsgames. There was a lot of response around the web, including several mentions of how the release represented a milestone in games as a medium (for example, at Raph Koster and Game Politics).

Well, today I can finally reveal that CNN is getting in the newsgame game too. CNN.com just published a game we created, Presidential Pong, playing off the recent and future presidential debates. Choose one of the leading prexy candidates as your player and one as an opponent, and each has a power up that relates to his or her strength in the campaign. It's a simple game and has less editorial content than the work we're be publishing at the NY Times, but do expect to see more examples on CNN.com in the future that deal with other issues in different ways. No matter, there are now at least two major news media organizations publishing newsgames.

You can play for free at CNN.com. You might also want to check out the beta of CNN.com's new homepage, which has an image link to the game right there on the front. As of Monday, the current CNN.com has a link as well. Not bad, games on the homepage of CNN.

Special thanks to Mike Mikula, a political cartoonist who worked with us on the characters.