Browse by Author   by Tom Bissell  Word Counts and Body Counts:
On Video Games and the Writing Life 0  Whenever my classmates
prodded me with questions about my work, I cited my latest word
count as evidence of a Puritan industry. I failed to mention --
I couldn't mention -- how closely it tracked with my body count.
Video Games Are a Metaphor for Life: Austin Grossman's You 4  I
like listening to people talk about video games. Not those
conversations about who scored a sick no-scope head shot, or
which character's passive ability allows them to farm the most
efficiently, mind you, but about why video games can be
meaningful and why they matter.  Play It Again: Neal
Stephenson's Reamde 4  Every video game has a guiding story.
“PLUMBER’S GIRLFRIEND CAPTURED BY APE!” was the original game
story, and they have evolved from that into worlds of moral
quandary.  Tom Bissell Turns Pop 0