We mentioned the somewhat odd BusinessWeek Arcade back when it launched; now Ian Bogost has taken up the whys and wherefores over at the Journalism & Games Project blog.
BusinessWeek’s BW Arcade page showcases a collection of acclaimed indie games, like One Ton Ghost’s Iron Dukes, Joakim Sandberg’s Noitu Love and Petri Purho’s recent IGF winner Crayon Physics, to name a few.
The news magazine never expected to be the subject of one of these games, however. Dazzling tale of Web 2.0 subversion and revenge follows the jump:
BusinessWeek are very serious. So seeing they’ve just opened the “BusinessWeek Arcade” – which is a catalogue/portal for “some of the Web’s best free, independently produced games” – on their site is a bit of a shock. Not as big a shock as seeing the calibre of games they’ve got on there, though. No shitty, cheap flash games here: the idle professional will instead be enjoying top-shelf titles like Crayon Physics, Toribash, Tumiki Fighters and – yes – Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. BusinessWeek Arcade [via IndieGames]
