He is the author of “Newsgames: Journalism at Play” (MIT Press 2010, co-authored with Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer) among other titles. His work covers a wide variety of topics not usually found in video games, including airport security, disaffected copy store workers, global petroleum market, Christmas shopping, tort reform, suburban errands, and pandemic flu. Their games have been played by millions of people and exhibited internationally. He is also a recipient of a Knight News Challenge grant in 2010 for Cartoonist, an attempt at creating authoring tools for interactive political cartoons. He has a bachelors degree in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA.