And speaking of companies started by Trip Hawkins, Electronic Arts, behemoth of the games publishing industry and master of pretty much all it oversees, is one of the companies TV bad guy Rupert Murdoch is considering purchasing, according to gamesindustry.biz. Yes the TV mogul, on whom Bond baddie Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies was loosely based, has shown a keen interest in getting on the videogames bandwagon. If this doesn't indicate a real move towards the "mainstream", I don't know what does.
What happens when ultra-conservative News Corp. gets in on the interactive act? Perhaps this signals a change in headlines speaking out against digital entertainment.
