It’s like clockwork; Moments after popping open any game that has a mature rating, my 10-year-old son seems to appear at my elbow to ask if he can play it with me.
Computer games have long lived online, but nowadays video game consoles are joining them, becoming a form of entertainment that can be not just enjoyed online, but increasingly, purchased online.
Born of Hurricane Katrina and the passing of a dear friend, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is more than a poignant, interactive allegory, it is the budding metamorphosis of the narrative.
Anders Behring Breivik was a likeable loner, a seemingly harmless Norwegian who masked his sudden disappearance from society to prepare for the biggest single-handed massacre in recent history with a modern affliction: video game addiction.
There’s something seemingly scandalous, irreverent about Simon Meek’s notion of “playing through” novels like Crime and Punishment or Wuthering Heights.
Galileo discovered the language of nature. Einstein questioned the colour of rainbows. Today’s physicists ponder the vertical acceleration and horizontal velocity of an angry bird in flight.
