For as long as I can remember, video games have been a central part of my life. First, I played them. Later, as a journalist, I covered them. I reviewed video games, I interviewed game developers, spoke about them on TV and radio. All that stuff.
But now that I have kids, my relationship to video games has changed dramatically. Partly because I have two boys who need protecting, but mostly because video games, as we once knew them, have changed.
In many ways for the worse. Once upon a time you’d head to the store, buy a video game with your cold hard cash, play it through to completion, then rinse and repeat.
Now, instead of playing through a number of different video games that you pay for up-front,…
