Playing video games doesn’t make you a better person. But that’s not the point

You take part in a game in a way unequalled by reading a book or watching a playAt a debate on technology and the future a few months ago, the panel chair confronted me with the line: “It turns out computer games merely teach you how to play other computer games.” What did I make of this, as a novelist? Wasn’t it damning? If true, didn’t it – the question implied – prove that games are practically worthless?Well, no. I’ve been puzzled for a long time by