Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Collision of Classic Literature and Video Games


Flavorwire takes note of a couple literary-minded video games and suggests some of their own.

From the piece...

4. The Crucible
Yes, this play is morally appalling, what with the witch hunting and squashing people to death with giant rocks. But what if it were an RPG game à la World of Warcraft where the accused and the townspeople are different warring factions? It could be pretty satisfying.


And talking about video games, they matter. Recently Omnivoracious interviewed Tom Bissell, author of the new book Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter.

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