Posts tagged ian bogost 
NY Times now publishing Persuasive's newsgames
The New York Times has begun publishing Persuasive's newsgames on the opinion page of their website. Currently, a title called Food Import Folly can be found under the Times Select heading. As Persuasive founder Ian Bogost note, this move by the New York Times is unprecedented. "I think it represent...
Living Game Worlds III: Playing with Controversy: The Case of Super Columbine Massacre
At the Living Game Worlds III Conference last week at Georgia Tech, Director of the Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition Sam Roberts lent his feet to the fire to explain his company's decisions in the aftermath of the Super Columbine Massacre RPG pullout, to which he lamented that "I don't thi...
Bad news for indie devs, and maybe for us
Despite a promise to support independent developers and help them get games out for the Wii, some are reporting problems with getting their hands on devkits. The Independent Developer Program was supposed to be kicked off last month, with kits going out to indie studios, but now it seems the program...
Zidane, Bush and Cheney walk into a videogame...
AddictingGames.com (part of Viacom), just created a newsgames repository for web games based on current news events. Games include the Zidane game we blogged back in June, Cheney's Fury, Bush Backrub and Darfur is Dying. The company expects most of these games to come from users of the site (aka, ...
