Tom Bissell on Why Video Games Matter
On the Media | May 5, 2011
Are video games mindlessly violent and hopelessly juvenile or a creative medium with unbelievable potential for immersive storytelling? Writer and critic Tom Bissell says … both. Mostly though he finds them wholly addictive and he comes by his appraisal after hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours of navigating digital danger. In his new book Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter he explains the state of play.
