video games didn’t start as an industry, they started as timetheft by programmers in university, government and military labs who were meant to be doing something else. While its entanglements with the military and technological control society which are pillars of capitalism are also strands of videogaming as a field that must be reckoned with, I would say it is shaped just as much by these illicit beginnings, as well as software crackers, personal computer users, and those who maintain their own strange gardens online – as its currently hypercompetitive commercial formation. […] Link
