Nintendo, Nostalgia and Gaming as AccumulationLewis Gordonartreview.com26 March 2026The history of Nintendo is like a proxy for a wider cultural pattern where childlike emotions feed hyperconsumerism
When Microsoft Flight Simulator Goes WrongLewis Gordonartreview.com19 December 2024The latest iteration of the video game reveals the hubris of a company intent on dominating the digital infrastructure of the future
The Lacanian Sex-Wish of ‘Clickolding’Lewis Gordonartreview.com02 August 2024A new viral game traps its users in a room with a mysterious figure goading them to keep clicking. Do we expect anything else from our perennially online, sexless and transactional times?
The ‘Perceptual Enclosure’ of Apple’s Vision ProLewis Gordonartreview.com15 February 2024The much-hyped ‘mixed reality’ device is a newly invasive means of capturing our attention, the purest expression of the world as a ‘one-person space’
The Time Before Things Got Really BadLewis Gordonartreview.com12 December 2023The year in videogames: 2023’s best works offered a mix of unfettered escapism and acute anxiety
A Trip to the ‘Fortnite’ Holocaust MuseumLewis Gordonartreview.com06 September 2023Yes, ‘Voices of the Forgotten’ is a virtual museum in the game’s metaverse-like world
The Glitch Art of ‘Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’Lewis Gordonartreview.com19 May 2023Are the apparent tears in the fabric of this digital reality authored or accidental?
