[chipsy]

You're getting it backwards. Games are prominent because it's in their modus operandi. Their relationship with tech remains symbiotic only as long as they can act as a flashy demo. This is a thing that occurs only some of the time, and more often than not, one of the two is compromised.

The other side of it, that a lot of games are made, is mostly reflective of the wishful thinking everyone has about games as a business. There are far more modified WordPress blogs out there than games, and they're probably more successful from a value standpoint.

Still, we discuss games often enough because they have that tendency to keep floating into the consumer space of tech.

[panic]

Games have been a huge driving force behind tech from the beginning. For example, Unix only exists because Ken Thompson wanted to port his game Space Travel to the PDP-7.

[yoklov]

Is this true? That's a great piece of trivia if so.

[panic]

Yeah, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)