The connections and camaraderie of Destiny`s communal Tower
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For most of my life, gaming has been a solitary experience. Though I spent my formative years sitting on the living room rug, peering up at the TV as my father journeyed through Hyrule, mostly it was just me and a beaten-up Amstrad. A battered Game Boy. A used and abused Xbox 360. It never occurred to kid-sized me that games would eventually offer vast, communal spaces in which players from all over the world could meet, play and mess about. There were a lot of special titles when I was growing up, games that forged a formidable foundation and a life-long passion for video games, but I didn`t talk about them with my friends. With gigantic NHS glasses, buck teeth and an outrageously...