Do you want to read "a full-on Marxist critique" of Grand Theft Auto IV? One which sees the game as "a powerful statement on the immigrant experience, and the violent process of assimilation"? You actually might! I mean, I did. Here's a sample to help you decide.

The two modes of conduct are best summed up in two characters encountered fairly early in the course of the game: Mikhael Faustin and Dimitri Raskalov. They are the bosses of the local Russian mob: Mikhael as the ferocious leadership, Dimitri handling diplomacy and the finer points of organized crime. In everything from their personalities to their drug habits they embody the opposition between New and Old Worlds. Mikhael, cocaine using, dangerous, unpredictable, inefficient, is a classic tyrant, with a belief in blood loyalties and feuds that ultimately leads to his own destruction. Dimitri, inveterate barbiturate addict and constant "voice of reason," sees organized crime as a game. "We pick the game, but we cannot change the rules," he states, and in the very same conversation he enlists Niko to kill Mikhael, who has become too violent, too erratic, he must be dealt with. He's broken "the rules" and Dimitri points to this as sufficient reason to betray his blood brother.

But he also betrays Mikhael in the name of capitalist production; Mikhael is dangerous, yes, but murder is the stock and trade of such men. The trouble is that his murderousness is no longer profitable; it has, in fact, gotten in the way of the mob's profitability. His dedication to an outmoded form of production, more than anything else, leads to Mikhael's destruction. In the New World, blood loyalties are replaced with contracts, honor with rules, ritual revenge with law. It isn't that the Old World mode is not just as arbitrary or dangerous; Mikhael is already self-destructing, and Niko, very much an Old World soul, is burdened by considerable misery. The difference is that the new mode is self-aware, and its subscribers can therefore self-modify in order to remain profitable.

If that gets you going, there's plenty more here. I found this via the NYT's great Idea of the Day blog, which is worth adding to your RSS.