‘Video games are something to educate yourself about, to embrace’

The author of Death By Video Game, Simon Parkin, on what made him write the book and why he thinks the industry can overcome sexism and racism
• Death By Video Game extract: The sometimes fatal attraction of video gamesYou’ve forged a successful career writing about gaming culture for publications such as the New Yorker and New Statesman. What made you want to write a book?
The past few years I’ve been doing a fair bit of reporting about video games, and what particularly interests me are