> "gaming is dead now"

One gets the impression that gaming is dead when one's only contact with modern gaming consists of reading headlines about a handful of AAA games.

In reality, the gaming landscape has never been better, as game production has expanded in several directions:

- The barrier to entry into game development has been lowered; People who are talented in design but not programming now have the opportunity to create games

- AAA budgets have increased; those who enjoy large-scale productions will find increasingly large games

- There is still a market for old-school games, so plenty of (especially smaller) companies produce retromodern games

Heck, they even still produce commercial Commodore 64 games o_O

Of course, there is less room for radical innovation, but people do not play only radically innovative games. And regardless, innovation still exists today, especially in smaller-scale productions.