{"585195":{"#nid":"585195","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Publishers Are Playing Around with Games Again","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost was quoted in DIGIDAY\u0026#39;S article \u0026ldquo;Publishers Are Playing Around with Games Again:\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA few years after publishers fell in and out of love with games, they are toying around with them again. In the past couple months, Hearst Digital has begun producing branded puzzle games and quizzes for MSN; both Mic and the Washington Post have begun experimenting with non-branded game bots on platforms like Kik and Facebook Messenger, respectively\u0026hellip; Indeed, the just-concluded election seemed to get publishers back into the gaming mood. The New York Times published an Everyday Arcade game called \u0026ldquo;The Voter Suppression Trail\u0026rdquo;; The Washington Post launched a mobile game called \u0026ldquo;Floppy Candidate\u0026rdquo;; Wonkette worked with the UK-based game developer Auroch Digital on \u0026ldquo;Game Of U.S. America Elections: The Game,\u0026rdquo; a turn-based card game it funded on Kickstarter.\u0026hellip; These all grabbed headlines. But they never spurred publications to invest more meaningfully in them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This stuff is made to be novel rather than to do journalism,\u0026rdquo; said Ian Bogost, a distinguished chair of media studies at \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E and the author of \u0026ldquo;Newsgames.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;[Those games] never rose to the level of becoming speech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2016-12-16 18:34:17","changed_gmt":"2016-12-16 18:34:17","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Copernicus Climate Change Service","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/digiday.com\/publishers\/publishers-playing-around-games\/","dateline":{"date":"2016-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"252091":{"id":"252091","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1502475238","gmt_changed":"2017-08-11 18:13:58","alt":"Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"226504","name":"bogost-color.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","mime":"image\/png","size":6216793,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bogost-color.png?itok=1Az_4YGj"}}},"media_ids":["252091"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173057","name":"digiday"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"2213","name":"Games"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}