watercoolergames.org - 2/24/2009
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Games for Change has announced plans to offer the Knight News Game Award at the 2009 Sixth Annual Games for Change Festival in May of this year. Here are the criteria from the website: Our definition of a news game - A digital game which is journalistic: it enhances people's ability to make ...
defunctgames.com - 2/28/2009
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On Running Feuds (Ep. 160) - What is
it about Tetris that makes people take it for...
granted? Every time one of these magazines has a list of the best games of all time, Tetris is always the runner up. It's always the bridesmaid, never a bride. And it's ...
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Tetris - Always the Bridesmaid
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... firstly, Ian Bogost points out a new award specifically for news games - a good thing, if you believe that timely games about news events are one of the areas that video games can bring insight and gain credibility.
Also in this set - What They Play on violent media and aggression, Tom Chick on why Grand Theft Auto IV and its expansion aren't doing things right, Leigh Alexander on Dangerous High School Girls and censorship, and lots more besides.
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