{"id":838218,"date":"2025-12-12T07:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/its-all-very-sad-isnt-it-where-does-the-games-industry-go-from-here"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:06:58","slug":"its-all-very-sad-isnt-it-where-does-the-games-industry-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/its-all-very-sad-isnt-it-where-does-the-games-industry-go-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s all very sad, isn\u2019t it – where does the games industry go from here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love video games. It’s fair to say that I am obsessed with them. From an early age I was drawn to what they offered, their ability to push forward technology, to wow, to entertain, to make me excited like nothing else. As a child I used to read maybe 10 video game magazines a month (maybe more if I wasn’t shooed out of my local WHSmiths that I was using like a library). I took joy in telling my friends about video games, and I knew I wanted to turn that into my career. And I did. There have been ups and downs, for sure, but I’m still here, 20 years later, still obsessed.<\/p>\n

Yet, things feel different. It, the mood hanging in the air, feels, for want of a better word… bad.<\/p>\n

It’s the severe whiplash of it all that’s so hard to parse.<\/p>\n

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I love video games. It’s fair to say that I am obsessed with them. From an early age I was drawn to what they offered, their ability to push forward technology, to wow, to entertain, to make me excited like nothing else. As a child I used to read maybe 10 video game magazines a month (maybe more if I wasn’t shooed out of my local WHSmiths that I was using like a library). I took joy in telling my friends about video games, and I knew I wanted to turn that into my career. And I did. There have been ups and downs, for sure, but I’m still here, 20 years later, still obsessed. Yet, things feel different. It, the mood hanging in the…<\/p>\n

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