News: Games and Communism

February 11, 2005, 07:27 PM

by chazumaru, via PG -
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Water Cooler Games recently pointed readers towards the politically-related website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which, among other things, decided to review a handful of games from the viewpoint of communist values. You will learn, for example, that "Sim City has completely bourgeois assumptions, which is why it is not MIM's favorite economic strategy game", yet they favor "games such as Sim City (...) because among existing games that the mostly imperialist country people play, the mindless militarist games are the worst of all." Beyond the amusing clichés employed by some of the articles, the pieces are an interesting nod toward the often overlooked ideology conveyed by videogames. Thanks to Pierre Gaultier for the link.