In recent years, a grassroots initiative has emerged under the name Stop Killing Games, a campaign that has put its finger on a wound the video game industry would rather ignore. Its central demand is simple: if players have paid…
Reality used to be the unquestioned foundation of human life. We interacted face-to-face, consumed art on physical media, and drew a sharp line between the tangible and the imaginary. Today, that boundary is increasingly porous. Simulation has started to replace…
There was a time when waiting wasn’t a flaw, it was part of the process. You waited for your favorite band to drop an album. You waited for a game’s official release, knowing it had passed through months of…