Why Do We Love Video Games?

The bastion of video games -- the game console -- should be dead. Or at least dying. Analysts have been saying this for some time. After all, we live in an age in which Netflix is producing the most innovative television shows while traditional networks are waning, print newspapers are closing and grappling with the rapidly decreasing profits of the industry and even radio has had to grapple with the emergence of Pandora. Digital, streaming, cross-platform content seems to be the name of the gam...