Extraction shooters and late capitalism: a genre that mirrors our age From Escape from Tarkov to ARC Raiders and Marathon, these games turn accumulation, risk, precarity and inequality into playable mechanics: an interactive echo of the economic and psychological pressures that shape contemporary life
Anyone who has spent enough time on Escape from Tarkov knows that particular feeling that grips the pit of your stomach at certain moments in a match: a full backpack, …
Extraction shooters and late capitalism: a genre that mirrors our age From Escape from Tarkov to ARC Raiders and Marathon, these games turn accumulation, risk, precarity and inequality into playable mechanics: an interactive echo of the economic and psychological pressures that shape contemporary life Read More