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.
After getting more media attention that I ever asked for (see www.ludology.org for my recent incursion on Spanish tabloids with the European royalty), I am glad to report that the press is still interested in political games. New York's 24-hour news station NY1 run a story on political games, focusing on September 12th and also featuing Marc Prensky, from SocialImpactGames.com site. The video also shows the Howard Dean game (uncredited :( and Madrid (again, uncredited). Today, there is also a story (in Spanish, free registration required) in Spain's La Vanguardia.
Overall, I am really glad of all this media attention and not just for personal reasons (I have the Royalty tabloid story for that :), but mainly because the world is (slowly) starting to see that games can deal with important issues. And that feels good.
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