A journey with long-awaited Trico

Back in 2015, I was in Venice the day before the E3 Sony conference took place. I was a spokesman in an event built around synergies between video games and contemporary art. In those days I had the pleasure to meet great people such as the journalist Emilio Cozzi and Alessandro Bragalini, Art Director at Forge Reply for the video game transposition of Joe Dever's Lone Wolf. At lunch we found ourselves talking about our expectations for this new year of wonders and, case you don't believe me, they could confirm you I had no doubt about The Last Guardian being shown on stage. I'm a big fan of Fumito Ueda's games and the information I had gathered brought me to the same conclusion: the time was ripe for its comeback.

"If it happens, tomorrow I'll walk naked all around the San Servolo island.", Alessandro said, happy to share the same enthusiasm for Ueda's works but while keeping a reasonable amount of scepticism.
Well, too bad for him, 'cause I was right.

War at the time of video games

In the last 15 years, video games underwent a dramatic evolution, becoming the medium able to convey deep messages that we now know. Its maturation has made possible to handle issues of a certain weight, and now video games can contribute to people's cultural formation.

The result, however, has opened the flank to the intrusion of other spheres of our daily life that found in video games a new chance to influence and direct the perception of reality. I’m referring to the use of video games for propaganda purposes, a phenomenon that we can recognize in ISIS recruitment message its most recent iteration.