“Games are going to be a part of the ways in which we remember the past going forward. Games will be taken much more seriously in the 21st century they’re going to carry much more historical weight,” says Whitaker. “I look at games as being in a similar positions as motion pictures were in the beginning of the 20th century. In the next 75 years, he hopes more historians will see the value of games as Spielberg did. “Going forward you are going to see the same sort of conversations about Second World War games.” “Recently with the centenary of the end of World War I, I can’t tell you how many conversations I had with students and other scholars about how games they played like Battlefield 1 or Valiant Hearts: The Great Warportrayed the First World War,” he says.
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