So there I was, sitting in a limey burger joint, eating ‘micro-burgers’ and trying to figure out how to kill some time. Oh sure, I played the government approved game where I got to shoot peace protesters and non-conformists to my heart’s content (seriously, that was in the game!), but it just wasn’t doing it for me anymore. I needed a proper thrill for a Brit teenager. Perhaps some fish and chips would fit the bill? As I “queued up” in front of the ‘B’ citizen counters, one of the hired help offered to help me get my hands on a copy of Grand Theft Auto 13, a most definitely not government approved video game. It was at that point that I…fell asleep. Well, that’s not entirely true. I did revisit the game later that night with the intent of seeing just where this browser-based game from the UK’s Channel 4 was taking me, but after sitting through what seemed an eternity’s worth of propaganda (I mean the propaganda of the game , not the propagan...
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....