Dead Media Beat: Video Games

*Okay, "video" games are not dying, but some of their delivery systems and marketing models are in for it. And the hapless employees of course.

http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/08/10/video-games-are-dead-video/

"Freefalling sales. Skyrocketing unemployment. Studios tanking left and right. Between the twin pressures of one of the worst recessions in modern history and a fundamental shift in the way today’s fans consume interactive entertainment, the PC and video game business is quickly coming up short on extra lives. As Season 2 of Players Only opens, we connect with the industry’s biggest names to cast aside the field’s “recession-proof” image and explore how the very fabric of gaming as we know it has changed."

(((Interesting video. I can remember when game developers were pure-D geeks, genuine societal outcasts, and now look at their hair, their clothing... classic Hollywood. And they've got to the problems of classic Hollywood, too, like, "oops, lost a billion dollars overseas, oh well, wait till next year.")))

*Another video, like, a videogame-video-video.