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The future of gaming is as opaque as ever

Game Daily

Downright wild Back in 2020, I wrote a piece for Polygon that looked back at the “downright wild” predictions game industry insiders had made ten years earlier. The woeful 2010 predictions focused on techno-utopian, science fiction fantasies that are still, today, a long way from realization.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. This is primarily because the Korean art team does not have the same historical and cultural burden as European and American teams shoulder when designing western fantasy elements. This genre is getting marginalized in the West.