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Does playing Wolfenstein 3D provide catharsis for young Israelis?
It’s said that in order to make it easy for players to shoot their enemies, you can make them robots, monsters, or Nazis. For young Israelis, the latter was preferable. Tablet’s senior writer provides a fascinating first-hand account of what it was like to play the game with revenge in mind: Killin
Does playing games make you an explorer?
From a Paris Review interview with poet Cathy Park Hong: The frontier is always the border of something, virgin territory where we can build new worlds, remake ourselves; always there’s this obsession with remaking ourselves. So to dream of the frontier is also to desire immortality. But there is no
SOUTHERN RAP MAP #1: SL Jones
Hey guys! Welcome to the Rap Map, where we talk to rappers from every region of the world (North America is the whole world, right? Cool.) about their favorite videogames. We’re starting with the South, and first up, we’ve got SL Jones. SL Jones is a rapper from Little Rock, AK, who in the past has
