What is the allure of the World War 2 shooter, exactly? As someone who’s unapologetic about supporting this genre, it’s a topic I enjoy exploring. You know, instead of just sitting around and complaining about how many were released last week (and by the way, that joke never gets old). Obviously there’s something about them that resonates with gamer culture, though I’m sure with casual gamers to a greater degree as they are only exposed to the ones that get the most hype. And developers still manage to come up with new ideas for interactive war experiences, because they keep selling. An article I wrote over at The Cultural Gutter attempts to coalesce some of these thoughts.

Also, from this point on I’ll be supplying material once a month for the video games section at the Gutter. Though I don’t expect this to affect anything around here.