In Defense of Joysticks

Hot off the recent suspension of a video game deemed possibly too obscene to fall into the hands of a young audience, Eric-Jon Rossel Waugh of Next Generation magazine has written a very lengthy piece coming to the defense of game design, why it should be considered a form of art and how people like Michel Gondry who has banned his son from playing video games are just being stupid and paranoid. Even though we don’t play a lot of games (though this writer still plays and enjoys the copy of NHL ’06 he owns once every couple of months), the whole piece is interesting, if just to give you an overall picture of the battles a new form of expression has to weather in its infancy.