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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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Our Article on the Dean Game Goes Online

by Ian Bogost April 16, 2008

categories: Political Games

A couple years ago, Gonzalo and I wrote an article, Videogames Go To Washington, about the creation of the Howard Dean for Iowa Game. The article appeared in Pat Harrigam amd Noah Wardrip-Fruin's collection Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, which was published last year. Pat and Noah have arranged to publish the articles from the book online at the Electronic Book Review, and our piece just went up there.

Happy reading: Video Games Go to Washington: The Story Behind The Howard Dean for Iowa Game

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