The Daddening Of Video Games  I can buy video game's depiction
of intergalactic war, sure. Gaming portrayals of romance are a
tougher sell. But there's another kind of love that's suddenly
popular in games and is being done well: The love of being a
dad.  I write this article from the disadvantaged position of
being married and not being a father. It's possible that what
you're about to read is tainted by my gullibility in believing
in something I've not experienced. My admiration for the the way
modern video games portray the love a father has for his child —
as opposed to the ways they often falter at believable marriages
and dating situations — may be due to nothing more than my
inexperience, the fact that I've been a father only as many
times as I've experienced intergalactic war. Being married is
something I've done one time more than that, happily and
continuously.  I will nevertheless dare suggest, in this week
leading to Valentine's Day, that video games are still not the
great portrayers of believabl