Landscape Trouble: Why we are surrounded by climate change games

Landscape theory can demonstrate how computer games reflect back to us the upheavals in contemporary relationships with the physical environment. In a recent paper, Benjamin Abraham and Darshana Jayemanne asked ‘where are all the climate change games?’ To answer this question, I take existing studies of computer games as landscape, and formalise them into a more comprehensive methodology that reveals the vision of landscape that games are reflecting. I argue that when we look closely at the landscapes being created by computer games, we will find that most, if not all of them are already climate change games.