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Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

·Aug 22, 2021

Why Video Games Get ‘Old’ So Quickly

… and why we might finally be stepping off that treadmill — Earlier this week I wrote a piece about how teenagers are rediscovering Papers, Please. It’s an amazing indie game from 2013. In the headline — and in the text — I referred to it as an “old” game. This made several folks cock their eyebrows. A game from 2013 is……

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Why Video Games Get ‘Old’ So Quickly
Why Video Games Get ‘Old’ So Quickly
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