Most people who read this blog know that I work in the videogame business. I am truly amazed at some of the numbers coming from it. Blizzard’s World of Warcraft mints between $600 million and $1 billion a year. The just-released Grand Theft Auto 4 cost more than $100 million to produce.
When I started in the industry in 1996, the most costly game was Wing Commander. It took $10 million to create and was a complete disaster. How things have changed …
Personally, I’m still playing Civilization 4 from 2005. And I love reading blogs from political actors and economists who grew up playing Civ just like I did. You can see it embedded in a lot of their prose.