Video games are tame, and it's hurting their artistic value

Opinion by Matt S.

I’ve been thinking a great deal about art and transgression recently. As regular readers probably know, it’s a topic that I regularly come back to. In fact if I’d say there’s any one thing about art that appeals to me, it’s the way that art can transgress; to challenge or even productively offend us to the point that we can be galvanised into seeing a subject in a different way. Transgressive art is often very disagreeable, but in disagreeing with it, it can have a powerful effect, and ultimately, to me, that is what art should be: affecting.

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