Tag Master of Orion

Terraforming in the South China Sea

One of the things that I find most fascinating and engaging about videogames is their capacity to serve as interactive thought experiments.  Games can be ways of making explicit (or more often implicit) arguments, ways of trying to understand the…

Conquered Klackon colonists being assimilated

Postcolonialism in Space

It seems that I’ve been doing a lot of reading on postcolonialism lately, so not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking a lot about how issues of colonialism are portrayed in videogames.  Of course, the first title to come to mind in…