Slate's year-end gaming club on Red Dead Redemption, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and more. (1) - By Tom Bissell, John Lanchester, Seth Schiesel, and Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine

Slate's year-end gaming club on Red Dead Redemption, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and more. (1) - By Tom Bissell, John Lanchester, Seth Schiesel, and Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine: "Yes, the game can be buggy. Yes, it sags a little bit when John Marston heads to Mexico. Yes, the Spanish dialogue is not written with the same care as the English dialogue, at least to my rusty, and pretty much untrained, ears. But it's not a game I would be embarrassed to show a space alien—or, more likely, a colleague or a friend—as an exemplar of the form. A magazine writer e-mailed me the other day, saying that he feels like he's missing out on an important cultural phenomenon by not playing video games. He wants to know how he should get started. If I were forced to suggest only games from 2010, I could offer him only one suggestion that would be worth his time."