The Future of Gaming

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The business of making a game is becoming more like the film business. The budgets involved in these games have risen to kind of Hollywood style proportions. Microsoft has a big streaming component as part of its Xbox Game Pass service. It's yet to kind of really take off though, and I think technically it's just harder to stream games than it is to stream video or music. People who are real kind of obsessive gamers find that the performance is just not quite there yet.

These days the gaming industry takes in much more than the global cinema box office. We ask how things are changing, from gamers’ demographics to the games’ content. And a year after our last conversation with Dmytro, a heartsick resident of the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, we check back in to see how he has been.

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