The Future of Video Games

I was reading this article about the next 25 years of video games. It talked about PS3 Home (which is Sony's attempt at competing with Second Life, or more probably with imvu) like it was some new type of entity that has never been seen before. "Sometime in the Spring of '08 Sony will break ground on the kind of virtual world that has been predicted by, well, about 40 percent of the science-fiction stories written in the last 50 years." I guess if PS3 Home will "break ground" on these virtual worlds, then Second Life "acquired the building permit"? And then it gets worse: "...but even if PS3 Home dies on the vine, it will, at worst, serve as the blueprint the next virtual world is built from. It could be the Model-T of what could, generations later, turn into something close to The Matrix." I think that, at worst, it will be remembered as that Second Life rip-off that sucked and no one ever used. Anyway, the article is pretty interesting despite the author's ignorance of certain things. He also did one of my biggest pet peeves by saying about Spore "They're planning on half a million stars with millions of planets orbiting. When we say 'infinite,' we mean it." Actually, you don't mean it, because you just clearly stated finite numbers. The worst is when people use the term "literally" when they really mean exactly the opposite. I mean, if you were literally so scared you jumped out of your skin, you wouldn't be talking to me right now, would you?

And now for something completely different