14-01-2019 02:25 via theguardian.com

Video games want us to be enemies. But developers underestimate our humanity | Anna Spargo-Ryan

Not all gamers are secretly good. But as in the real world, there’s a groundswell of people who want to lift up othersAt Christmas I was avoiding adult responsibility and leftovers by playing an online video game. Wandering in a post-apocalyptic wilderness, I happened upon a group of guys playing together. To my surprise, they didn’t kill me. They didn’t even steal my meagre possessions. Actually, I soon learned, they were a bunch of dads. Nice dads. They visited my base and in
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