BIT BY BIT

Andrew Ervin sets out to understand the explosive popularity of video games. He travels to government laboratories, junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists and game designers, both old and young. In charting the material and technological history of vide o games, from the 1950s to the present, he suggests that their appeal starts and ends with the sense of creativity they instill in g amers. As Ervin argues, games can be art because they are beautiful, moving, and even political. Video games have seemingly taken over our liv...[Read more]