More the kind of thing that Gonzalo blogs about, but News.com has discuss “Games that stick it to the Man”, discussing the genre of anti-advergames.
Advertisers, governments and organizations mount huge campaigns to show us what they want us to see, and we want to expose what they’re hiding,” said Ian Bogost, a partner at Persuasive Games, a pioneer of the new genre. “There’s lots of precedent for this sort of speech in print, in film (and) on the Web, but we think videogames are particularly good at exposing the underlying logics of these organizations–how they work and what’s wrong with it.”
I never blogged about “important events of 2005”, but I think that during 2005 the mainstream media became much better at writing informed articles on video games.