Letters: Games industry needs to mature if it truly aspires to cultural status

Letters: Games industry needs to mature if it truly aspires to cultural status

Isn't the problem with the overwhelming standard model in computer gaming that one's mind is more often than not placed in the body of someone with a gun, and then compelled to play out a kill or be killed narrative?

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