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.
The folks at Powerful Robot put together this Christmas postcard and, well, I thought of sharing it with you guys (and publicly humiliating Ian for not having a postcard of his own :P That's ok Ian, you can join me and wish all our readers a Merry Christmas. What? Oh, you are American so you are forced to wish also all the multi-racial-cultural festivities that happen to take place these days? That's fine, too (and sorry all you guys who do not worship the true and only God ;) Really, now seriously, both Ian and myself wish you, from the very deep corners of our hearts, that you have a great time and that Santa brings you a Nintendo DS so we can kick you *ss on the multiplayer wireless arena!
PS: And since we are sentimental, today, December 23rd, it's already an year that we launched the Howard Dean game. Man, what a year! So many things, so many games. Just wait for 2005, I bet that agenda that we keep talking about on this blog, will get larger and larger.
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