It’s nice to see the problems of the current gaming industry get mainstream press coverage:

One of the world’s leading video game developers fired a warning shot over the multi-billion-dollar gaming industry yesterday, saying the sector must deliver products beyond shoot-’em-up adventures and sports hits if it wants to avoid being marginalized.

“We’ve got to stop limiting ourselves to adolescent male power fantasies,” said [Warren] Spector [credited on Ultima, Wing Commander and Deus Ex].

This was in the opening keynote of this week’s Montreal Games Summit, and I remember thinking Spector had painted a very grim picture indeed of our medium and its future if we don’t change our ways. It set a strange tone for the conference, after which I felt a little odd talking about how to create snow that sparkles realistically, with this elephant in the room.

Via Becca.