Thomas Sutcliffe, a writer for The Independent (a newspaper) has written an article about video games.

His argument is that, despite video games becoming a massive media, it still isn't getting the coverage it deserves. He takes Spore (though he spells it wrong) as an example and discusses how even such a popular game only managed a tiny piece in the back of the paper. This is the complete opposite to sport or films which can take up the whole front page.

He believes that given current popularity that video games deserve the same treatment as the other main types of media. Do you agree?

What did strike me, though – given the almost universal enlistment in an activity that only 20 years ago was the preserve of home-programmers and hobbyists – was the mismatch between the scale of teenagers' involvement in video games and the relative invisibility of this creative field in what you might call the traditional media. From time to time a new game release, such as Will Wright's recently released Spor, will edge its way on to the news pages – and most newspapers carry some form of capsule reviews . But usually they're tucked away in the back alleys of the publication, while film and music and television continue to dominate the big boulevards. Mainstream television does virtually nothing. Arts programmes remain almost exclusively dedicated to cultural forms which are also-rans for many teenagers.

Dark Arcanine via independent.co.uk »