{"id":959266,"date":"2026-01-02T17:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/where-will-games-be-in-25-years"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:49:21","slug":"where-will-games-be-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/where-will-games-be-in-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Where will games be in 25 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/where-will-games-be-in-25-years.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;ve been celebrating Eurogamer&#8217;s 25th anniversary by looking back at some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-25-games-that-made-eurogamer\">the games<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/former-eurogamer-editors-come-together-for-a-special-25th-anniversary-podcast-chat\">the people<\/a> that have shaped our past quarter century. We&#8217;ve also been recommending our favourite games you can play right now, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-eurogamer-100\">The Eurogamer 100<\/a>. Now, however, we invite you for a look at the future of video games &#8211; written not by us, but the people who are actually going to be building it.<\/p>\n<p>Where will the world of video games be in another 25 years? It&#8217;s a topic that seems intrinsically linked to where the <em>world<\/em> will be in 25 years. The prevalence of AI, the growth of cloud systems and the continued improvement in VR\/AR technology all loom large &#8211; but there&#8217;s also real positivity here for the the future of our favourite medium as it continues to mature.<\/p>\n<p>A huge thank you to everyone who contributed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/where-will-games-be-in-25-years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/where-will-games-be-in-25-years\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we&#8217;ve been celebrating Eurogamer&#8217;s 25th anniversary by looking back at some of the games and the people that have shaped our past quarter century. We&#8217;ve also been recommending our favourite games you can play right now, with The Eurogamer 100. Now, however, we invite you for a look at the future of video games &#8211; written not by us, but the people who are actually going to be building it. Where will the world of video games be in another 25 years? It&#8217;s a topic that seems intrinsically linked to where the world will be in 25 years. The prevalence of AI, the growth of cloud systems and the continued improvement in VR\/AR technology all loom large &#8211; but there&#8217;s also real positivity&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/where-will-games-be-in-25-years\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":959267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[13972],"class_list":["post-959266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-eurogamer-25"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where will games be in 25 years? | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week we&#039;ve been celebrating Eurogamer&#039;s 25th anniversary by looking back at some of the games and the people that have shaped our past quarter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/where-will-games-be-in-25-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where will games be in 25 years? 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