Games Are Good for You
The Eagle-Bearer navigates both myth and morality in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Photo credit: Elvira @Elvira04289 "Every human society in recorded history has games. We don’t just solve problems out of necessity. We do it for fun. Even as adults. Leave a human being alone with a knotted rope and they will unravel it. Leave a human being alone with blocks and they will build something. Games are part of what makes us human. We see the world as a mystery, a puzzle, because we’ve always been a species of problem solvers." – The Talos Principle Games as Storytelling: Our New "Myth" I often wonder about the first stories our ancestors told eons ago as they turned to their theatres of ash and fire in the shelter of warmth-clad caves, watching the shadow-play of silhouettes and chalk carvings illuminate the walls to become the birthplace of myths and legends. As t hese fledgling forms of oral tradition took flight, so too did the scope of humankind itself: From the