Taming the Inexplicable
The Witness’s potentially subversive message is lost inside a culture of relentless techno-utopianism and its creator’s own hubris
Character Assassination
Though they foreground models over characters, systems-oriented video games can't evade the issues of identity politics
A Game Is Being Beaten
The trend in video game design is to comment on violence by asking players to perform violence. But could there be pleasure in performing consent?