“To truly love games, you must hate the games industry.

If the unreached potential of a game is what can make you hate it, the games industry is the peak of unreached potential. It continues to give birth to one of the most exciting form of entertainment possible. An entertainment that everyone could enjoy, but very few do. An industry full of creativity, being stifled.”

A solid article with a rather dour outlook on the games industry, featuring discussion of the state of mobile phone games in 2003, some major cussing of Naughty Dog founder Jason Rubin, and I get 73/100 in the pub quiz.

Conference and trade show coverage is interesting, in that the things discussed are rather temporary, and in retrospect only reflect the time in which they were written. Then again, it’s kind of hard to write something timeless in the games journalism biz, right? Enjoy it anyway!