The Game of Menus in Video Games Is a Game of Leaks

Alexander Galloway's new book is called Leaks. In it, he argues that video games are an allegory for the algorithmic structure of today's informatic culture. He says they can be seen as a microversion or caught in a microweb of relations that mimic the macro relations that is capitalism. Colin: This is the exact same argument that's being deployed in games of empire. We're already familiar with that. Yes.