MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Game changing
SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up
A LAN party at the 2004 DreamHack with hundreds of players
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World
Marijam Did, Verso Books, £16.99
CAN video games be a force for good in the world, or are they the virtual precursors of our own destruction? Is there time to course correct, to instigate revolutionary changes in the industry, or are we racing ineluctably towards the worst digital culture has to offer?
These aren’t easy questions. But they do need asking — and as developers and players, we’re encouraged to hold ourselves accountable.
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