As the videogame industry has grown into its increasingly dominant role within popular entertainment, more AAA releases have experienced an “introspective turn*.” Games have openly become more concerned with what they ask of players, and show this concern through the composition of their gameplay elements. Recent works of popular criticism, such as Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives and Brendan Keogh’s Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops: The Line, have examined these developments, questioning how these games reflect upon [...]