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.
The Women in Games 2005 conference is coming up this August 8-10 at the University of Abertay Dundee in Scotland. The conference promises material about both the role of women in the games industry and future games that might appeal to women. Keynote speakers include Ernest Adams, an independent games designer, teacher, founder of IGDA, Melissa Federoff, a Microsoft Games Usability Engineer, Constance A. Steinkuehler, a MMORPG researcher and game columnist, and Aphra Kerr, a game researcher at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster. I know Ernest, Constance, and Aphra and can strongly recommend them. And I'm sure Melissa must be a top pick to find herself among that company.
Registration is open now; student prices are available.
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