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Water Cooler Games Closes

7:00AM Owen Good | Water Cooler Games, a standard-bearer for intelligent discussion of video games over the past six years, has been shuttered according to co-founder Ian Bogost in a final post made today. More »

Bogost! Colbert! Talking!

11:20PM Brian Ashcraft | As mentioned earlier. So if you don’t have a television or live in a country with foreign TV, watch away. More »

Bogost Hits Colbert

10:00AM Brian Crecente | Water Cooler Games’ Ian Bogost let me know last week he was going to be on The Colbert Report. He sounded half totally freaked out and half jazzed. I don’t blame him. I don’t know how I would stand up to that eyebrow, and god forbid Colbert releases both on you. Watch the show tonight at 11:30 p.m. on Comedy Central if you want to see how he does… I’m sure well since he will be talking about his new book, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Video Games, and, I’m sure, his gig with the New York Times which I find endlessly fascinating (Hey, it finally gives me a topic I can discuss with those non-gamers out there that I frequently bump into.) More »