Simon Parkin

Author & Journalist

Read This Before Buying That Video Game,” New York Times, DECEMBER 2024.

Playing Monopoly is not such a trivial pursuit,” The Spectator, NOVEMBER 2024.

Uncomfortable truths about the siege of LeningraD,” The Spectator, September 2024.

The Division 2 and the Severing of Politics from Video Games,” New Yorker, March 2019.

The “Bandersnatch” Episode of “Black Mirror” and the Pitfalls of Interactive Fiction,” New Yorker, January 2019.

"MARTIN AMIS ON SPACE INVADERS: HOW GAME CRITICISM WAS BORN," The Observer, November 2018.

"The Dazzling Reinvention of ZELDA," New Yorker, March 2017.

"No Man's Sky reviewed," New Yorker, August 2016.

"What ISIS Learned From Hollywood," Guardian, January 2016.

"Michael Clune's Gamelife: A Memoir -- Coming of age with video games," New Yorker, December 2015.

"SuperBetter' and 'the state of play', new York times, October 2015

"The Four-Dimensional Human," Literary Review, August 2015

"How Video Games Make You Work," New Yorker, June 2015.

"How Evil Should a Video Game Allow You to Be?," New Yorker, September 2013.

"Desert Island Discs: 66 years young", New Statesman, August 2013.

"Nobody Remembers Their First Kill: the importance of video game violence", New Statesman, February 2013.

"Final Fantasy live in Paris", Guardian, January 2013.