After two years of collective stress, loss and grief, not to mention a still-divisive political climate, I’ve come to think of play as crucial to simply getting through the day. Everywhere we look there are — or can be — games.... Not simply because the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are still hard to find or the tech universe has made the concept of a metaverse — a game-like escape into a digital reality — mainstream.... A deeper understanding of play can lead to new experiences, and there w