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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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Playing with yourself
by Gonzalo Frasca May 12, 2004
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Emotion in Games
CNN has a story about the new sexy games anounced at E3. I was really disapointed at seeing that Leisure Suit Larry looks awful (it was a great game back in the days. Scratch and Sniff, you can't beat that. Al Lowe, we love you. Btw, check out this interview at e-boredom). Non-American players will find the fact that Singles got an AO rating quite dumb, but, hey, keep in mind that here in Denmark they show porn movies on open TV at after midnight on saturdays...
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