Errant Signal - “Keep Your Politics Out of my Video Games“

When it comes to discussing games the gamer subculture insists politics should be kept out (unless it reflects positively on the game and by extension themselves, hence the championing of Bioshock’s critique of Objectivism or GTA’s nebulous ’satire’). They attack political critique most boisterously in the context of reviews, but also in most other contexts as well. But is that really a fair position to take? Can we take video games in a vacuum, divorced from the developers and the greater context which c