In perhaps the most abstruse exploration of an economic theme in a video game since Ms. Pac-Man tackled workplace sexism, game designer Colin Northway says his quirky indie puzzler Incredipede is really a game about ... global economic inequality.

I really enjoyed this piece by Christopher Ketcham in Harper's about the origins of the Monopoly board game, specifically, it's iteration as The Landlord's Game before it became a game about owning all the property and leaving your competitors penniless.

Monopoly, the game of where you use cunning, deceit and backdoor deals to ruin your competitors and win all the moneys, will be retiring one of its eight tokens.

They make it on the show. They came on down. It's great.