LOS ANGELES: ”They want to turn your past into your future,” writes Jill Lepore in a recent issue of the New Yorker.
Lepore was writing about Amazon, Google, and Facebook and their algorithm-driven data machines, but she just as easily could have been writing about videogame developers big and small. Three notable releases use our past as grist for the nostalgia mill, churning up memories the way penguin parents pre-digest their young’s food. We players happily consume the reconstituted leftovers, all too happy to remember what once was.
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