Pushing Buttons: Why do I get so emotionally attached to inanimate objects in games?

In this week’s newsletter: Like Kratos’s axe and Halo’s Warthogs before it, Pacific Drive’s beat-up banger and I have formed a lasting connection as we survive a scary world together• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI had to give up on Pacific Drive, the weird-fiction-inspired driving survival game I recommended the other week. Not because it’s bad – it’s great – but because it needed 20-plus hours from me