THIS MONTH ON EDGE
Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else
BOOK
Everything To Play For bit.ly/dideogames
Subtitled How Videogames Are Changing The World, Marijam Didžgalvyte’s impassioned, fiercely intelligent, proudly left-wing tome has the quality of a manifesto. Which is to say that How Videogames Might Change The World would perhaps be more accurate. Didžgalvyte’s early promise to interrogate “this boundless, fascinating, grotesque industry” is an invitation to strap in, as she outlines her formative experiences with the medium before briskly, approachably outlining what games and the surrounding culture are getting right and wrong. Pertinent points about misogyny, the industry’s environmental impact, how it remains snagged in the machinery of capitalism and more are made, while the author notes that games are an inefficient way to make a political statement. You would struggle to say the same of this.