THE FUSE

In Interstellar, Michael Caine says to astronauts Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway as they embark on their mission to save the planet, “do not go gentle into that good night”. It’s a reminder that while humanity’s chances of survival maybe remote, its destruction is assured if they do nothing. A group of video game developers in the US and abroad have taken the lines from Dylan Thomas’ poem to heart. They have raged, raged against the dying of their employment with public demonstrations that have garnered global attention to a video game labor crisis that’s slowly starting to gain mainstream recognition.