The Stigma of Blockbusters: Big Budget, Bigger Problems

Reuben Williams-Smith writes: "Video games are expensive. This is an obvious and unavoidable fact. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of gaming will tell you that prices only ever seem to increase. The release of a new console generation has only hiked the price up even further; the cost of the new hardware and all the fancy next generation games making the barrier to enjoyment even less surmountable. Unless youre a PC gamer of course, in which case the prevalence of digital distribution a...