Indie game programmer, Greg Costikyan, has posted an analysis of and sustained polemic against the current gaming industry. Sample quote:
The machinery of gaming has run amock... an industry that was once the most innovative and exciting artistic field on the planet has become a morass of drudgery and imitation... It is time for a revolution!

The whole thing is an interesting read (particularly his analysis of the tension between spiralling development costs caused by Moore's exponential law and more slowly growing returns caused by linear population growth). Of particular interest for readers of this site is his offhand comment which reveales what 3DO did to the reputation of the Might and Magic franchise (in some quarters, at least) - "Coasters of Might & Magic". Ouch.

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