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September 8, 2012 08:00 pm GMT
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We Have All Become Parallel Gamers
If you really want to become a hate figure in GamerVille, predict the doom of single player games. This is territory that Frank Gibeau from Electronic Arts inadvertently strayed into this week when he declared that he now only commissions games that connect to the cloud. The gaming press in general read this as EA saying it would no longer make single player games like Mass Effect, and went crazy.And yet Gibeau is right. Single player gaming all by itself is slowly slipping into the past, to be replaced by something else. Not some half-dreamed half-TED-talk fueled craziness about constant gaming in the future instead of life, but something connected nonetheless. Something hard to pin down, but which is definitely real. Some sort of ambient connection which brings the game together for players and makes it just that little bit more of a world.In two words: parallel games.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6nOZExnKddc/
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