#2000s

Outlaw Volleyball at 23: When MTV Wanted to Conquer Gaming

Outlaw Volleyball was never a good game. Released in 2003, it nonetheless stands as evidence of a serious attempt to graft MTV culture—underground music, rebellious aesthetics, raw energy—onto mainstream gaming. A forgotten project that reveals something precise about an era when the industry sought to absorb pop culture by force. Twenty-three years later, the exercise in memory is worth revisiting, less for the game itself than for what it exposes.