Tag Archives: games
You Sunk My Strawman
First: I would like to applaud Foreign Policy for recognizing the merit of games as simulations and metaphors for conflict, as I think there are valuable lessons to find in such comparisons. That said, it’s really important to understand the limitations of the medium. A game … Continue reading
Long War and Infinite Respawns: Games, American Culture, and a Narrative that just won’t Die.
The first video game I connected with on a gut level was Call of Duty. I was playing at a friends house, and he had me start on the first mission in the Soviet campaign. I took control, and for … Continue reading
From the Cradle of Civilization to the Grave of Empires
“My goal for the next few years is to try and end the war and thus use the engineers to clear swamps and fallout so that farming may resume. I want to rebuild the world. But I’m not sure how. … Continue reading
Syria is Libya on Nightmare Mode
Writing against an American military intervention in Syria, Walter Pincus says this: Syria is not a video game. Americans need to understand that. President Bashar al-Assad and his regime, fighting to stay in power, are using increasingly brutal force against their own people. It … Continue reading
How Games Model Covert Action
While working on the unfortunately cut-short Interventions podcast, I was asked by Adam Elkus about how games model covert action. Gamer though I am, this question caught me off-guard. Games model covert action on almost every level and almost every … Continue reading
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