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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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Political Games for Election Day

by Ian Bogost November 7, 2006

categories: Casual Games , Political Games

We've probably been remiss in not pointing readers to Jay Bibby's excellent site on casual games, CasualGameplay (aka JayIsGames). In observance of Election Day here in the States, the crew over there has been reviewing political games, for the first time I think. Among those reviewed are Newsgaming.com's September 12th, Persuasive Games' Oil God and Airport Security, and the Global Kids/Unicef/gameLab game Cost of Life. I've weighed in in some of the comments over there, and I invite our readers to do so too.

P.S. - Americans go vote!