Like League Of Legends, for example, it’s the biggest game in the world and yet in all my years I have never heard a single other journalist or developer ever even mention its name. GC: We try to cover everything, to some degree, on the site, but I’m always aware there are these huge elements of gaming culture that have almost zero crossover with traditional console gaming. Because I’m still very kinda retro focused, you know? And so that was interesting, it was a wee bit of an education for me as well I would say, doing it. I realised how out of touch I was with how the scene actually is and who the people are out there and what they enjoy playing and stuff. I used to watch the Film shows with Barry Norman and even as a kid I was like, ‘Why is this on at 11pm at night?’ I thought movies were a big deal? Everyone talks about them and their actors but not the actual things themselves. And they’re never even really that big, these shows about films.
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RF: The way I always look at it is that we clamour for it… people that love video games clamour for it a wee bit, you know? Where is the big TV show about games and stuff? But it’s not like there’s been a huge amount of TV shows about films either… or about books. GC: It is clear though that TV has completely missed its chance of any kind of synergy with games, after all but ignoring the scene entirely. So it’s obviously in young people’s consciousness as well.
My daughter, she’ll be 15 in January, she talks about speedrunners and stuff like that.
I think it’s maybe been things like that…īecause, you know, definitely that stuff has become more popular recently.
RF: Maybe, but I wonder as well, maybe with Twitch being so popular and people doing speedruns and stuff like that, maybe somebody just went, ‘Oh, hang on! You know, we own the rights to a format where people do gaming challenges’. GC: With these sorts of things I always imagine a clock counting down in some marketing office somewhere, to the point where something popular is old enough for people to get nostalgic about it.