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Ethics and Video Games Podcast

Mar 29, 2022

Video game transactions are a highly unusual, perhaps unique, business model.  Our guest Elie Cohen essentially calls it an exploitative scheme where “the house never loses”.  It’s not that they’re always bad, but they easily can be exploitative, wrong, or simply “uncool”.  What can or does make...


Mar 15, 2022

There’s deception in Among Us and bluffing in Poker.  But then there are multiplayer games where players you trusted will scam, betray, and backstab you to get ahead.  Few things can be as upsetting in a game as being the victim of such treacherous play.  But what, if anything, is wrong with playing...


Mar 1, 2022

A meritocratic system is one whose “winners” are those who earn their positions through greatest talent and hard work.  That sounds like a good system – a fair one!  And video games seem to be a fantastic place for meritocracy to be actualized – a place where, unlike the real world, everyone competes on a level...