I’m not much of a gamer (although my seven-year old seems to be welded to his Nintendo GameCube), but I’m fascinated by Greg Costikyan’s new weblog on gaming.
When I was involved in Davos, I pushed hard for a session looking at games as business and as an important part of culture. This was at a time when videogame revenues were just passing Hollywood’s annual box office. I received a pretty dusty hearing from my colleagues. But Costikyan is wrestling with some of the hard questions the gaming world throws up. His essay on why Snood is the ninth most popular game in the world is a model.
UK culture minister Kim Howells should read Costikyan on games and violence before he makes further ill-informed comment.