It’s 2007. We have games with accurate shadows and enemies that make you forget they aren’t other people. We can have 16 on 16 Halo 3 matches. There are active MMO populations larger than small states. We can help Fold@Home with our consoles. We can bowl and actually feel like we’re bowling. Some games have better cinema sequences than a lot of movies. One of the most anticipated games of the next few years is going to take you through the lifespan of a multi-cell organism to its ancestors traveling between galaxies. But we can’t have four people playing Puzzle Fighter online together without re-inviting for forty minutes and freezing every fifteen minutes after that.
October 21, 2007