Is Dark Souls Just A 100-Hour Waste Of Time?

April 1, 2012Erik Kain

Is gaming its own reward, or do games suffer from a lack of deeper meaning? Michael Thomsen’s peculiar review of Dark Souls displays a deep misunderstanding of what a game is and why we play them. Just as troubling, it appears that Dark Souls is only a convenient whipping boy for Thomsen’s ire; gaming itself, […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.