Over the years, I’ve seen several references to Salman Rushdie’s apparent love for love-hate relationship to video games. As I recall, he professed to being a heavy game player during his years in hiding, and he has recently declared his passion for Angry Birds.
Here he discusses storytelling and video games. A bit on the short side, but he understands Rockstar’s typical mostly-linear + sandbox game structure and puts in the obligatory Borges reference.
“Salman Rushdie’s apparent love for video games.”
Are you kidding? From my PhD thesis I recollected this dialog between him and Cronenberg.
“Cronenberg: Do you think there could ever be a computer game that could truly be art?
Rushdie: No.
Justification
“Rushdie: In the end, a work of art is something which comes out of somebody’s imagination and takes a final form. It’s offered and is then completed by the reader or the viewer or whoever it may be”
The interview/dialog is still online: http://www.davidcronenberg.de/cr_rushd.htm
@nelson Oh, that’s interesting. I hadn’t seen that interview. He does seem to play them a good deal though. Perhaps more of a love-hate relationship?