Engadget has a sneak peak article about AMD’s efforts to bring the experience of gaming to a higher level – making it a truly cinematic experience, a played movie. This is their posting of June 17.

The whole issue of gaming is a huge one, for better or worse. There is great potential for truly powerful experiences in the gaming – those that would take the player beyond their limited experience into something larger that feeds back into a better life. However you slice it though, there is still an avatar running around experiencing things in your place. The main benefit I see is that a player can participate in the creation of their own knowledge. This depends to some extent on the balance between the space left open to a player’s imagination and the hard edges of the story and action set made available within the game. Searching through a new, purposeful world full of intriguing discoveries is quite a different thing than spraying meaningless amounts of bullets into polygonal targets.

This will need more attention later, perhaps in the realm of alternative reality games – the emerging conceptual crossroads of reality and fantasy.