This Video Game Could Revolutionize Publishing—And Reading

When the Best Books of 2013 are listed, the most important may not make the cut. That's because the most exciting literary innovation of the year is not a book at all, but a video game for iPad and iPhone. Device 6 is a metaphysical thriller in which the world is made almost entirely from words. Playing it is like reading a book-except, in this book, the words veer off in unexpected directions, rather than progressing in orderly fashion down the page.