The United States began production in 2002 and remained relatively constant until 2014. The list comprises: the United States (45), Brazil (19), UK (15), Italy (7), France (4), Uruguay (4), Australia (2), Netherlands (2), Austria (1), Canada (1), Chile (1), Denmark (1), Germany (1), India (1) and Japan (1). It has statistics on countries that record productions of this type and, which, amongst these, have the highest number of publications. The project is maintained by Jornalistas da Web, a news from Brazil website, created in 2000 and dedicated to cover the relationship between journalism and new technologies. It holds information and links on newsgames and serious games published in countries all over the world. In Brazil, between 20, the production team of the magazine Superinteressante published several newsgames with topics ranging from science to philosophy.įor this research study, three games produced since 2000 were chosen from the list of games presented in the directory Newsgame Vault. Between 20 special attention was drawn to the newsgames published by CNN (Presidential Pong in 2007), MTV (Darfur is Dying in 2006 Debt Ski, in 2009), by The New York Times (Food Import Folly in 2007) and El País (Madrid, 2004), and by the magazine Wired (Cut-throat Capitalism, 2009). Produced in one day, it was a reaction to the terrorist attacks in the Spanish capital on 11 March 2004.
Seabra indicates that in fact the first experiments started from 2004, with the publication of Madrid by the Spanish newspaper El País. More than 500,000 people played this newsgame. The game simulates a bombing and during the game makes it clear that it is impossible to hit only (military targets), thus criticizing the American attacks in the war on terror by demonstrating the effects of the war on civilians. was published by, a company that produces games and was managed by Gonzalo Frasca. The game is a criticism of the American bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan. The first experiments began around 2001 with the publication of the independent newsgame Kabul Kaboon produced by the game designer and researcher Gonzalo Frasca. Newsgames are a game format that use the news as a basis for constructing their narrative.