After all, gamers like me do already spend plenty of time in front of our screens all on our own.īut even sitting alone for hours, gamers aren’t necessarily isolated. But my friends reassured me that as lifelong video game enthusiasts, the prospect of sitting on a sofa in front of a TV for an interminable stretch would be a cakewalk. I was sitting in my tiny New York City apartment, panicky and coming to terms with the reality that I’d be trapped inside for weeks, potentially months. “Our entire lives have led up to this,” my friends joked with me in mid-March.
