Monday, 14 August, 2006

Serious games expert Ben Sawyer cites Food Force as an effective example of learning-by-doing in this piece in USA Today.

Thursday, 10 August, 2006

Scientists and policy experts are starting to see the value of serious games such as Food Force, says Josh Schollmeyer in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Sunday, 6 August, 2006

Food Force is praised as one of a new wave of do-gooder games in Time Magazine.

Sunday, 23 July, 2006

The new generation of serious games can be a real medium of change, says an article in The New York Times.

Thursday, 29 June, 2006

Food Force is featured in an article exploring video games in charity work in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Monday, 29 May, 2006

The success of Food Force is cited in an article about serious games in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Wednesday, 15 February, 2006

Food Force is winning hearts and minds, says an article in Wired News.

Friday, 30 December, 2005

This is what Lara Croft would look like if she carried rice bags, says Tina Rosenberg of The New York Times.

Friday, 4 November, 2005

Food Force is featured in a postcard from the Serious Games Summit in Washington DC.

Wednesday, 28 September, 2005

The game scores a hit with Japanese players, Taro Karasaki reports. The English-language version of the major Japanese daily’s web site features an illustrated link to the story on its homepage.

Wednesday, 20 July, 2005

”[Food Force] conveys the point that the challenge of giving aid is interesting,” Steven Hansch, who teaches courses on humanitarian aid at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins universities, tells the Voice of America.

Wednesday, 13 July, 2005

USA Today says Food Force scores 5 stars out of 5.

Friday, 8 July, 2005

Food Force helps kids understand how international aid organizations work to help starving people, writes the Gannet News Service.

Tuesday, 28 June, 2005

The Fort Wayne News Sentinal of Indiana mentions Food Force in an article about placement ads.

Monday, 13 June, 2005

Many media outlets, including Canada’s Globe and Mail, pick up the Reuters Alertnet story about the popularity of the game.

Friday, 10 June, 2005

MSNBC picks up the Associated Press story about the game’s success.

Thursday, 9 June, 2005

“And now a game from our sponsor”: The Economist announces the advergame, a whole new genre of entertainment (requires subscription).

Monday, 6 June, 2005

Time Magazine visits Food Force and reads about the team.

Saturday, 4 June, 2005

Playing the game, FT.com feels that “the chill of real lives in jeopardy reaches through the pixels.”

Wednesday, 18 May, 2005

Schoolzone.co.uk, the UK’s top educational website, gives Food Force its five-star rating, saying the game is “fantastic and definitely worth promoting.”

Monday, 9 May, 2005

The Toronto Star adapts an editorial in the Belleville Intelligencer saying that WFP has clearly “put a great deal of thought into this unique method of reaching youngsters around the world.”

Monday, 2 May, 2005

Food Force is featured on the the bi-weekly April newsletter issued by Educationplanet.com and on both the April and May newsletters for Lessonsplanpage.com.

Thursday, 21 April, 2005

Allafrica.com picks up a story about the game and WFP from Ghana’s Accra Daily Mail.

The Chicago Tribune mentions the game in its weekly guide to entertainment technology.

Wednesday, 20 April, 2005

The Independent devotes much of a story on non-violent video games to the game.

Tuesday, 19 April, 2005

Food Aid comes to a small screen near you in Malaysia Kini.

Monday, 18 April, 2005

4teachers.org, a valuable online teachers’ resource, features Food Force as its site of the week.

Macworld writes about the game: UN game teaches kids to feed the hungry.

Friday, 15 April, 2005

CNET.com uses Reuters but CNET.com.au writes its own story on the game, entitled Food for thought.

Watercoolergames.org writes a glowing review of the game.

The Associated Press story about the game is picked up by the major outlets, such as CNN, Guardian Unlimited and MSNBC.

Thursday, 14 April, 2005

BBC’s children’s news site tells kids about the launch of Food Force.

From the getting-the-message-out dept, the game gets a brief story at Slashdot.

The BBC places its story about the game launch on its prominent news ticker.