Pushing Buttons: what games can offer us in times of crisis
In this week's newsletter: in bleak moments, games can satisfy our urge to take action and make things better
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It's difficult to sit down and concentrate at the moment, isn't it. Whenever something worrying and momentous is occurring in the news, most things feel frivolous and pointless. I used to experience an amorphous sense of guilt around writing about video games for a living when important and harrowing things were happening in the wider world. I work at a newspaper replete with talented people doing difficult and vital journalism about the geopolitical events that affect us all. Should we not be reading that, instead of something about Elden Ring?
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