Weekend Reading: And the award goes to…

While mucking up Podtoid 37, I really liked the question about the industry maturing. While videogames are definitely more mainstream, with regular articles covering the industry in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, there is still a stigma revolving around videogame culture. For every article that talked about Halo being a billion-dollar franchise, there was someone on TV claiming that games are just for kids.
If you look on TV and in movies, gamers are still furiously tapping the buttons on whatever system they’re playing, as though their heart rate depends on smashing that A button in until it breaks. I’m sure once they get up to putting Wiimotes in actors’ hands, they’ll be swinging about wildly and throwing them into TVs. I can see it now, actually. Jake, the pudgy little boy on Two and a Half Men, gets a Wii for his birthday, because he can […]

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