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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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The OC mobile game

by Ian Bogost July 31, 2006

categories: Advergames

Word is out that mobile games publisher Gameloft has released a mobile simulation/dating game based on the hit television show The O.C.. Pocket Gamer reports that the game, still in development, is really a port/skinning of another Gameloft game, New York Nights: Success in the City, an existing (!) sim/dating game. Players can choose a character from the show, or customize their own character to maximize his or her desirability. From the article:

Gameloft also promises that there'll be a host of mini-games, including talking, joking, criticising, kissing, drinking, dancing, offering items and punching. Which sounds like an average Friday night out to us. There'll also be unlockable content in the form of new friends and locations.

(via Game Set Watch, Wonderland)