Retro Gamer

Age of innovation

For at least a decade (or more) now, gaming has been in what I think of as ‘The Incremental Age’; games have stuck rigidly to a handful of genres and templates, graphics have stopped taking giant leaps, and the biggest technological development in gaming – virtual reality – is one that has been knocking around for close to 30 years.

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