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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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Persuasive Games Press Bonanza
by Ian Bogost August 28, 2004
categories: Political Games

Big week for political games press. As if Newsgaming's BBC coverage wasn't enough, G4 Tech TV's weekly game news show Pulse just ran a feature on my studio Persuasive Games. I'm working on getting a copy of the segment digitized for our readers' viewing pleasure.

Last week the Boston Globe also published an artlcle on political games, Right and Left-Click Politics (archived for your non-registering, non-paying pleasure), in which I am quoted. On any other day, that would be news enough, but today the controller runneth over. I should point out that the Dean Game was a design collaboration between Gonzalo and I, even though he wasn't properly mentioned in the article.