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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 Parody

by Ian Bogost October 1, 2004

categories: Political Games

An AP story on website campaign parodies makes mention of a few games we've discussed here on WCG, including Bushgame and Staffers.

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