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March 29, 2008 Link to this post
Video games - judged on a different scale?
Canada's Globe and Mail has an article questioning whether videogames have the lasting appeal of other media, like movies or books. (And before you point to the success of classic arcade games on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, the author comments that we tend to look at older games through a nostalgic lens, and don't judge them by their current value - so a better test of their ability to last will be whether they still appeal to a generation that never played them when they first came out.) Halo is held up as an example of a game that was lauded upon release, but might not still be played in 20 years. (Louis Wu 16:48:37 UTC)
