Guardian Unlimited Gamesblog

The Guardian is a British newspaper with a daily circulation of around 400,000. A general mainstream newspaper, reporting daily news and politics, with a left-of-center view. And they have an online edition, and in this online edition there is the Guardian Unlimited Gamesblog. Okay, its not a MMORPG blog, but other than that it is more or less exactly what I'm doing here.

This needs some mental getting-used-to. I played my first computer games over 20 years ago, on a ZX81, and I'm very much used to being considered a geek because of playing computer games. But now a newspaper like The Guardian reports on computer games the same way as it reports on other forms of entertainment, like movies, sports, or TV. Even my TV magazine has a page with game reviews in it nowadays. Video games are becoming mainstream. In a few years every newspaper will have a video games section just as naturally as they have a movies section. If somebody asks you what your hobbies are, saying "computer games" might no longer elicit that strange stare, but an intelligent response along the lines of "have you played ...".
- posted by Tobold @ 9:31 AM Permanent Link