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Water Cooler Games - video games with an agenda

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Water Cooler Games is a site about videogames with an agenda. It is about games that go beyond entertainment. Water Cooler Games explores the emerging field of games want to do more than simply being fun: they want to make a point, share knowledge, change opinions. This includes new genres such as advergaming, newsgaming, political games, simulations and edutainment. If you think that video games have a strong potential for communication, persuasion and education, come and join our discussion by the Water Cooler.

Water Cooler Games is edited by Ian Bogost and Gonzalo Frasca, two of the world's leading videogame researchers and designers of videogames with an agenda.

Ian Bogost is a game designer, academic game researcher, and educational publisher. Currently, Dr. Bogost is Assistant Professor in the at The Georgia Institute of Technology, where he researches on videogame criticism and videogame rhetoric and teaches in the undergraduate program in Computational Media and the graduate program in Digital Media.

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1170 Peachtree St. Suite 1200
Atlanta GA 30030 US

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Persuasive Games LLC
+1 866 568-0585

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