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 ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Guy Raz. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And I'm Melissa Block. Zynga is the company behind popular Facebook games like Farmville and Cityville. Over 200 million ...

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, ...

Famed game scholar and designer (and satirist) Ian Bogost has taken the next logical step with the Cow Clicker franchise and released the Cow Clicker API. According to Bogost, developers can now use ...

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 ...

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 ...

The revelations that Cambridge Analytica paid for data scraped from millions of users surprised many people - not our next guest. In 2010, Ian Bogost created an app called "Cow Clicker" - you clicked ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...