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Criticism
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Simon Parkin
Author & Journalist
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Read This Before Buying That Video Game
,” New York Times, DECEMBER 2024.
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Playing Monopoly is not such a trivial pursuit
,” The Spectator, NOVEMBER 2024.
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Uncomfortable truths about the siege of LeningraD
,” The Spectator, September 2024.
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The Division 2 and the Severing of Politics from Video Games
,” New Yorker, March 2019.
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The “Bandersnatch” Episode of “Black Mirror” and the Pitfalls of Interactive Fiction
,” New Yorker, January 2019.
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MARTIN AMIS ON SPACE INVADERS: HOW GAME CRITICISM WAS BORN
," The Observer, November 2018.
"
The Dazzling Reinvention of ZELDA
," New Yorker, March 2017.
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No Man's Sky reviewed
," New Yorker, August 2016.
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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
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How Video Games Make You Work
," New Yorker, June 2015.
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How Evil Should a Video Game Allow You to Be?
," New Yorker, September 2013.
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Desert Island Discs: 66 years young
", New Statesman, August 2013.
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Nobody Remembers Their First Kill: the importance of video game violence
", New Statesman, February 2013.
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Final Fantasy live in Paris
", Guardian, January 2013.