Empathy Games
We Went to the Weird Reality Symposium To Find The Limits of Virtual Reality
Can wearing a headset put you in someone else’s shoes? Weird Reality was home to radical work that critically examined virtual reality as a tool to create empathy.
‘North’ Is a Dark, Surreal Game About Being a Refugee
’North’ proves that games can engage traumatic narratives without cheapening the lived experience of those who have actually suffered through them.
Why Video Games Can't Teach You Empathy
To truly understand another person’s plight, to know the shame of being called “sir” when you are in fact “ma’am,” takes more than a video game.
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