Once upon a time my gaming used to drive my reading. That is, whenever I would come across a really good game - you know, one that really fired off those neurons - I would inevitably find myself running to the local library (for you Millennials, that was the Amazon.com of the pre-internet age ) or the bookstore to find a book that matched the subject matter of the game I was currently enjoying. Heck, if you take a look at my bookshelves you can almost track what I was playing back then! Such a gaming-reading connection seemed to happen a lot back in the good ol' days of gaming. Sadly, not so much today. However, you might have noticed that as of late I have been playing a lot of Wargame: AirLand Battle and, now, Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm (you haven't seen anything on that...yet!). Clearly, I am enjoying gaming's rediscovery of the epic standoff that was the Cold War . No surprise: the very first serious wargame I ever played was a ...
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....