One of the most important games I played this year wasn't about sci-fi space battles or dark fantasy realms. It was a short, small, and sad interactive story about a frequently overlooked, real-world event: the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
I'm half-Iranian and it isn't often that I get to see elements of my heritage portrayed in a positive light. Western movies and TV shows love to "other" the so-called Middle East, casting actors as faceless terrorists in political dramas that oversimplify complex conflicts into fights between the Good Guys and the Bad Guys. In video games, we've fired shots at many a bearded, AK-wielding baddie in a keffiyeh, seen Arabic script used as cryptic decor to root gaming's nameless, war-torn deserts in some kind of gritty reality. Sometimes, the language isn't even right.
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