Video Games Are Dying (But Actually For Real This Time [Except Maybe Indies But You Know])
It's 8 p.m. on March 3rd 2026, a little over 24 hours from the conclusion of the Marathon Sever Slam - No not that Marathon , instead its new younger sibling; a live service extraction shooter with immaculate aesthetics but horrific always-online restrictions and pay-to-pay-more monetization.[*1] Given my own history with the Halo series and my many many hours in Destiny , I should've guessed that I'd already be fiending to claw my way back onto Tau Ceti IV. And yet, the thing that's kept me from pulling the trigger[*4] is a sinking feeling that I'm getting across the digital gaming sphere. That there's a magic to video gaming that's been slowly eroded, that spark that made it the Big New Medium, the thing that got you excited on Christmas morning, has been slowly getting drown in the churn of microtransactions and always online grind. Are video games... dying? Now this is hyperbole (mostly) but have you noticed that Tabletop Games are kind of Having a M...
