growth in 3 years. Film will not remotely see that growth (but then is if fair to compare multiplatform games with cinema?). Anyhoo.... why? Because gaming is not becoming socially acceptable, it is because society is shaping the gaming it wants. Portal 2 is pretty much the greatest game I have ever played. Never have I so often repeated the words "this is actually genius" to myself in such a short space of time....and I mean genius in the genuine sense of the word, not as in how every single thing is now called 'genius' by idiots. LA Noire seems great so far too, if a little repetitive, but maybe that will change as you go further in. Great games, but don't get carried away. For every Portal or La Noire there are a dozen games even more braindead than big-budget movies. And at the end of the year, you will still be able to count the truly progressive video games that came out on one hand. Film has two to three hours to get all the characters and story in where as a game that runs for twenty hours is considered short. The two may look alike but they're totally different forms of entertainment. This is like comparing books to films, or long running TV shows to films. I'm also sure you can find some good intelligent films in among the blockbusters, just as I can point out the many crappy computer game releases among the excellent ones you've