Weekly Links #112

Hello, everyone. I'll start by highlighting a couple of rants. Over at The Guardian, Michael Cook comments on public reactions to AlphaGO's recent victory, and why our view of artificial intelligence may be skewed. In related news, Newsweek reports on a talk at the recently concluded Game Developer's Conference about Muslim stereotypes in videogames. I wrote about it just two months ago, so I won't insist. And on his blog, Jay Barnson comments on the old contract, recently unearthed, that nearly killed the Ultima series. Last but not least, an article over at Gamasutra explains in detail what makes award-winning game Her Story work so well.

If I were to draw any conclusion from this week's news, it would be that mentalities are everything. But that apparently remains too hard to grasp by people who make a fetish of high technology. And one day this willful blindness will get us all in really hot water. Have a nice week.