

Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new.
Videogames: they're fake. So they say, but occasionally artists do such a bang-up job that you almost forget (or don't want to acknowledge) otherwise. When folks champion games for their artistic prowess, they tend to look down—gazing at detailed leaves, worshipping believable reflections or stretchy pores. What they do less often is look up and marvel at the wheels keeping the whole illusion on track: the skybox.