The Military-Industrial Games Complex
In the 2000s, a generation of youth played games that were funded and aided by the US military — a connection that goes back to the very birth of video games.
While recent years have seen the options for enemy locales broadened, vaguely Middle Eastern settings have been a mainstay in combat-oriented video games for decades. Iraq alone features in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Battlefield 3, and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist, among others. Clearly, it’s not much of a stretch to suggest that […]
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