I consider myself to be an avid PC gamer. Not in the sense of having played some PC games, but in the sense of being a hobbyist – following gaming news, checking in on games in development, reading PC Gamer magazine regularly, and so on. Accordingly, I spend a lot of time thinking about how PC gaming (and video gaming as a whole) has developed over the past 20 years, and where it is heading now.
Right now, on my lap, I’m holding a shrink-wrapped copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a game that I thought I would never see. Before I played it, even a bit, I thought it’d be nice to get my thoughts down, knowing that once I booted it up, I’d be likely to get sucked in for quite awhile.
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