Can games be used in a journalistic sense? That is the premise of a new book called [URL=http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12251]Newsgames: Journalism at Play [/URL]that will be coming out in October.

The Atlantic [URL=http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/book-excerpt-can-videogames-be-journalism/62663/]looks at the question[/URL], while getting some quotes from one of the book's authors, Dr. Ian Bogost. The article starts by looking at a game created about Somali pirate raids called Cutthroat Capitalism. Bogost said in the book that the game served a journalistic purpose by allowing players to explore why pirates raid and the incentives behind it: [URL=http://www.gameculture.com/2010/09/21/games-journalism][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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