Atom games channel focuses on on satire ‘newsgames’

David Johnson September 22nd, 2006

Longtime Lost Remoters know I loves me my games (as does our illustrious founder, and a whole hell of a lot of other people), but what I really love is the massive potential in the medium and have been thumping and stumping to get big media companies to wake up and get serious about gettting into the red-hot game marketspace with their content. Well, most of them call me mad and can’t figure out how games can have anything to do with journalism or serious content. Now Atom Entertainment has gotten decidely unserious and is launching a new channel on AddictingGames.com dedicated to satirical “newsgames” which poke fun a current events. Old favorites like “Cheney’s Fury” (you get to be the trigger man on the veep’s quail shooter) anchor the site, but many of the games are the work of amateur designers. Dave Williams, Atom’s chief marketing officer for games, says games are becoming “a form of social commentary” and there is an upswing in games that have political or social opinion built in.