Video games

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    Video Games Do Guilt Better Than Any Other Art

    Game designers can make players reflect on their moral decisions in a way other art forms can’t.
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    How Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs

    Grand Theft Auto, that most lavish and notorious of all modern videogames, offers countless ways for players to behave. Much of this conduct, if acted out in our reality, would be considered somewhere between impolite and morally reprehensible. Want to pull a driver from her car, take the wheel, and motor along a sidewalk? Go […]
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    Video Games Are Changing the Hero

    This is what happens when we can occupy our heroes’ bodies.
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    Thank You for Buying “Call of Duty” & Helping to Fight Cancer!

    No still image can show the amazing realism of the Call of Duty games—but this can give you an idea.Activision Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . If you’ve seen the latest ads for the video game Call of Duty, they are almost guaranteed to have left an impression.First-person view, […]
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    The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games

    Patrick Gensel via Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Lately I’ve been hearing a kind of spectral music in the background of my daily life. It’s a syncopated, repeating MIDI ditty that conjures a feeling of excitement and invigorating challenge. I recently recognized it, and in the process […]