Games are powerful and important partly because they help us test out the limits of ordinary life. That’s why we play. And these free-to-play games allow us to feel the edges of the unholy reality of our current winner-take-all neo-Gilded Age.
Rage Against the Machines | Ian Bogost | The Baffler
Bogost on free-to-play games, arguing they are the latest incarnation of a long line if swindles. Hardly a novel insight, but well-argued as usual.