Crossplay Mailbag: When Video Games Prompt "The Stranger Talk" With Your Kids

These days, it's less about a spooky guy in a van promising candy than it is a video game avatar asking your child uncomfortably personal questions.

Minecraft became such a sensation in our household that my oldest ended up taking a local Minecraft class in the winter. Credit: Microsoft

Welcome back to the Crossplay mailbag!

Has it really been two weeks since this whole thing started? Incredible. Incredible!

I spent much of last week away from the family, walking the streets of Los Angeles in search of unreleased video games at Summer Games Fest. You can hear more about my adventures in LA over at Remap Radio, where we talk about Alan Wake 2, Hauntii, Immortals of Aveum, COCOON, and more. A lot of people had wonderful things to say about both Remap and Crossplay, and my time there was exhausting and well spent!

It’s otherwise been a week of getting stories in order for Crossplay, and I’ll have a lot of published in the weeks to come. Some of it’s interesting, some of it’s distressing, and like most things with parenting and kids, some of it’s in-between. Stay tuned!

Onto the mailbag.