In Real Life

It’s Official: Clicking On Cows Is A "Thing"

Every day, more evidence that Ian Bogost’s satirical game-turned-real-game-turned-ironic sensation Cow Clicker has become a bona fide sensation. Take the case of the startup “Wander,” which has no real product or service… at all… and yet has registered over 10,000 users.


December 22, 2011
In Real Life

Finally, A Video Game Article That Is Also A Video Game

You may have already read Leigh Alexander’s damn-near definitive recounting of Ian Bogost’s satirical Facebook game Cow Clicker right here at Kotaku. But all the same, the world could use another piece about the man and his work, especially if that piece is as clever as the one that Wired just ran.


October 4, 2011
In Real Life

Game Studies Take The Spotlight At Macquarie University’s GAME

Kotaku AU

For those with any interest in Game Studies, or video games in general for that matter, GAME – an event run by Macquarie University – is designed to showcase some of the great work currently being done in this rapidly growing field of academia.


In Real Life

The Life-Changing $US20 Rightward-Facing Cow

The past year has been one of the strangest ever in the life of game designer, lecturer and author Ian Bogost. It started with the launch of the most successful game he’s ever developed, and ended with him bringing it to a strange, cathartic end.


June 26, 2011
In Real Life

Video Game "Poems" Get A Luxurious Special-Edition Release

A Slow Year, the anthology of “video game poems” Dr. Ian Bogost wrote for the Atari 2600, has published a special edition befitting a work of art. The box is hand-crafted and bound in red leather, with foil-stamped gold lettering. The set sells for $US500 and only 20 are available, but admiring it is free.


June 22, 2011
PC

In Cow ClickARG, The Cowpocalypse Is Nigh

The Cow Clicker-ing community has been sent on a mission; discover the secrets of Cow ClickARG before the secrets discover you.


May 3, 2011
News

Video Games Let You Kill, Abuse Osama

Sunday night a team of two dozen Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden. If all goes as planned, you will soon be able to re-enact that head shot in a video game.


February 18, 2011
In Real Life

Artists That Use Video Games As Their Canvas

Are game developers creating games, or are they creating art? In the case of the ten creators showcased in flavorwire’s “10 Artists Who Use Video Games as Their Medium” I suspect it might be a little bit of both.


January 21, 2011
PC

Facebook Game Satire Continues With ‘Cow Clicker Blitz’

Cow Clicker, the send-up of social gaming absurdity, has expanded its parody of all things Facebook with an application platform that offers “seamless bovine integration”. Cow Clicker Blitz is a proof-of-concept of the robust leverages it can architect. Or something.


December 31, 2010
In Real Life

From The Mouths Of Babes, Withering Criticism

Tron: Legacy has been, at best, a critical disappointment. At worst, well, “a Dora the Explorer movie would be more interesting.” Who said that? The eight-year-old daughter of noted video game academic Ian Bogost.