Hollywood & Gaming
The New Hollywood: How Gaming Became the Center of Everything Pop Culture · Media · Technology The New Hollywood Is a Controller Gaming quietly became the biggest entertainment industry on the planet — and almost nobody outside it noticed. Here's what that actually means for all of us. An informal guide to how pop culture got centralized — and why gaming is at the center of it Let's start with something most people get wrong. When someone says "pop culture," they picture movies, maybe TV, music. They think of the Oscars, the Emmys, maybe the Grammys. What they almost never picture is a game controller — even though, by almost every meaningful measure, the gaming industry has already lapped traditional Hollywood. It's bigger. It costs more. It reaches more people. And it's quietly merging with the same entertainment machine that gave us the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pixar, and prestige TV. The convergence is happening right ...