It is reasonable to assume that the most ironically successful sardonic game of 2010 is getting a sequel, and probably soon. If you make your way over to the official website for Cow Clicker, a game ...

A Facebook game about Facebook games was inevitable; Hence “Cow Clicker,” a spoof Facebook app created by game theorist Ian Bogost in an attempt to distill the appeal of Zynga games like FarmVille, ...

Zynga, the company behind popular Facebook games such as Farmville and Cityville, is expected to have its initial public offering before the end... Cow Clicker Founder: If You Can't Ruin It, Destroy ...

The past year has been one of the strangest ever in the life of game designer, lecturer and author Ian Bogost. It started with the launch of the most successful game he’s ever developed, and ended ...

Cow Clicker, the send-up of social gaming absurdity, has expanded its parody of all things Facebook with an application platform that offers “seamless bovine integration.” Cow Clicker Blitz is a proof ...

How often have you wished you could click your cow while waiting for your latte, or while listening to a hipster friend's soulless, rapid-fire drone through obscure bands, or after having already ...

For a spell during 2010 and 2011, I was a virtual rancher of clickable cattle on Facebook. It feels like a long time ago. Obama was serving his first term as president. Google+ hadn’t arrived, let ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ian Bogost about data collected from Facebook-connected apps. In 2010, Bogost launched Cow Clicker, a parody game that inadvertently collected a lot of user information.

And I'm Melissa Block. Zynga is the company behind popular Facebook games like Farmville and Cityville. Over 200 million people play Zynga games each month. And before the end of the year, the company ...