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.
Everyone's always talking about "big changes," but isn't it the small ones that usually matter most? Well, small changes are afoot here at Water Cooler Games.
To wit, we have redesigned the homepage. Slightly. We'd redesigned this page a while back and it never really worked for me. It was hard to tell where the most recent stuff was, and it wasn't any easier to find old stuff, which was our main goal in the first place. A mess, I tell you!
Behold the changes, below. And for those of you who can't tell the difference, here's a snapshot of the old homepage.
- Latest posts are all in one column (this one), listed in order.
- We resolve to push more of each post past the jump so you can see more on this page.
- New! Quick News Links, at the right, on top. These are very quick links to outside sites. We get a ton of press releases or news stories we want to let our readers know about, but about which we don't want to devote an entire post. So, now we have a way to do that.
For those of you who use newsreaders, I've excluded the "quick links" posts from the RSS Feed. Let us know if you want that changed. Also let us know if this page is any better (we hope so!).
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