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episode 11: GHG talks AAA “apoliticism”, political games, and the means of production (with Marijam Didžgalvytė)
“The enemy is capitalism, it’s not just Call of Duty.” – Sam.
Jordan, Shay, Sam, Alex CG, and Marijam Didžgalvytė talk about why AAA developers and publishers continue to insist that their games contain no political statements despite all the evidence to the contrary. We also ask whether proudly political games do enough to merit all the plaudits, and take a moment to fast-forward the conversation even further: to the uncomfortable geopolitics behind the global video games industry and its means of production.
Links:
https://www.polygon.com/e3/2018/6/12/17451688/the-division-2-is-not-making-any-political-statements
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3x4y8/ea-is-changing-the-name-of-a-nazi-in-battlefield-v-that-belonged-to-a-real-life-resistance-fighter
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjqy94/david-cage-wants-to-know-what-youd-do-to-fight-for-your-rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Jb5Qj5JPM
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jun/25/ubisoft-tom-clancy-division-2-politics-criticism
https://www.vg247.com/2019/05/31/can-stories-apolitical-asked-video-game-writers-narrative-designers/
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-division-2-and-the-severing-of-politics-from-video-games#
https://theoutline.com/post/7803/are-video-games-political-conservative-liberal?zd=2&zi=luv75ex2
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/19/cnbc-transcript-cnbcs-becky-quick-interviews-activision-blizzard-ceo-bobby-kotick-from-the-cnbc-evolve-conference-in-los-angeles-today.html
https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/20/17480666/video-games-companies-lying-politics
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-10-02-dontnod-if-we-didnt-talk-about-politics-that-would-be-a-political-message
http://www.bafta.org/games/features/power-of-games-beyond-entertainment
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/30/papers-please-wins-2014-gamecity-prize
https://medium.com/@marijamdid/radical-critique-of-papers-please-d1e24e57b8d5
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