‘A space to feel at ease with dying’: how video games help people through grief

Players have long found a refuge from grief in video games – and a recent wave of games is tackling this difficult theme head-onWhen James’s father died, he did what any of us would do in the throes of grief: he sought comfort. He went looking for it in the expected places – friends, family – but he found it somewhere unexpected: in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.“Dad had always loved games. He gave me his NES when he got the SNES, and my fo