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== Newsgames are a type of online game that are based on concepts, issues, and current events. They “stimulate situations, help us imagine outcomes and causes, and offer a level of engagement unseen through other methods.” They display text, images, sounds, and video, as well as “simulate how things work by constructing models that people can interact with, a capacity Bogost has given the name procedural rhetoric. This is a type of experience irreducible to any other, earlier medium.” ==

Why Newsgames?
Traditional print journalism is being overtaken by an ever-growing digital and online world.

Types of News games:
-Editorial

-Infographic

-Documentary

-Literary

-Community

Examples of Popular Newsgames:

Cutthroat Capitalism
An Economic Analysis of the Somali business model. It is similar to an actual video game: “its visual design riffs off the blocky art of early coin-op and home console games, a method commonly used on screen and in print to apply video-game aesthetics to serious topics.” Cutthroat Capitalism, the concept, was paired with a web-based game, where “you are a pirate commander staked with $50,000 from local tribal leaders and other investors. Your job is to guide your private crew through raids in and around the Gulf of Aden, attack and capture a ship, and successfully negotiate ransom.” The result of this emulates capture and negotiation, “synthesizing the principles of the print spread into an experience rather than a description.” This newsgame shows that videogames can do good journalism, both as an independent medium for news and as a supplement to traditional forms of coverage. Newspaper revenue was down approximately thirty percent in 2009, and there widespread agreement that digital media will dominate in the future.

September 12th
Released by Uruguayan game studio, Powerful Robot, about the war on terror. "Editorial games like September 12th offer the video game equivalent of columns and editorial cartoons, conveying an opinion with the goal of persuading players to agree with embedded bias- or at least to consider an issue in a different light.