Video Games as high culture

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 18 Aug 2005 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Here’s a quote from an absolutely hapless manager at Electronic Arts in regards to Germany becoming a cultural backwater because the Germans are not embracing Video Game Consoles:   Gerhard Florin, European manager of the world's biggest games software publisher, Electronic Arts, said a battle still had to be fought against the perception that computer games made young people stupid. "I'm often asked when I'm abroad, in connection with our industry: 'What is wrong with the Germans"' he...

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