Once upon a time, games were heavy. You could hear them and you could barely lift them. The clunk of a slot lever, the rattle of coins dropping into a metal tray, the mechanical click before a jackpot line appeared and it all felt physical. You didn’t just play; you stood there, surrounded by light…

Gaming is a medium that’s very prone to experimentation and deviations. Once restricted to arcade machines in certain venues, then on physical media before becoming much more experimental with digital formats, leading to online gaming and cloud-based interactions, gaming is something that naturally changes along with technology. Free-to-play games are one such example. At first…