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​A Future Where the Worst Nightmares About Video Games Are True

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You hear the scare-logic all the time from folks who want to
blame video games for bad stuff: they’re just training simulations for how to
hurt people. A new sci-fi film project riffs on that premise and places it in a
future where all you need to do to play an online game is stick a giant network
wire on the back of your head. Thing is, this doesn’t look scary at all. It
looks cool, which is probably part of the problem.

Haphead comes from
writer Jim Munroe, a sci-fi writer who
once edited Adbusters magazine and contributed to polemic drone pilot game Unmanned. The description reads like this:

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Ten years from now, videogames are so immersive that teenagers learn lethal skills just by playing. They’re called hapheads.

Yes, it’s got shades of ideas from The Matrix and loads of other dystopian
speculation fiction but it wraps them up with threads that comment on
modern-day happenings. Like, that factory where our heroine works is basically
Foxconn, the Chinese firm best known
for assembling Apple and Sony products in disturbing conditions.

And hey, look, the game they’re playing is Overgrowth.
Hope this means we won’t have to wait until the year 20XX to get to play that
awesome rabbit combat game. You can learn more about Haphead by going right here

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