Quest to Nowhere

The term casual game seems to be getting used a lot lately. Mostly because it seems to coincide with the rise of “casual gamers.” The reason its beginning to bug me is that although it seems to be a fairly accurate way to describe these games since they are played rather casually, but when you look at the key game elements of these games a lot of them seem/are things that have been done in games before. More specifically they were done in the early days of gaming, in those early arcade games.

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With all the talk of the US maybe being in a recession, or maybe heading towards one, I’ve begun to think about what a recession would most likely do to the videogame industry. In the past the industry has never had to really deal with a recession, at least not since the 80′s, and the industry has grown a significant amount since then.

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