Playin' them vidjagames. High-five. Bother me on the Twitter: @postmesmeric When you first play Minecraft, you’re dropped into a blocky world with barely any direction whatsoever. You can generate ...

I recently told a room full of academics interested in using videogames as a teaching tool that “to play is the biggest freedom we can have as a child, or as an adult”. The popular world-building game ...