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I think it will stay seperate. Because games are a different medium than movies. But in this day and age games are becomeing more and more like a motion picture. But I strongly believe movies will always remain as a place to go on a Friday night and video games and arcades will become more attractive as they litterally become an interactive expierence like the Holo deck on Star Trek. Where you tell the computer to make a set interactive world where you can go in and simply escape or have an adventure. Like you can tell the computer set a scene in the ociean on a huge ship rageing through a big storm. Create Metal Gear envirorment. Or create Rupture Farms. and the big doors open to another world. Now that is a video game! And while your playing you can tell the computer to end program and save it so you can go back to your world.

Imagine playing Oddworld on the Holodeck of the Enterprise! Actually going to visit Oddworld through Holographic imagery. Actually walking into those envirorments phisically and being able to touch the holograms because they are solid forms of light. Now that would be absolutely remarkable.

Infact I don't think we are that far from actually creating a Holo Deck. The question is how do you manage to hold light in place through microscopic energy sources like micro force fields? How do you create a force field?

We have lazors. if we can somehow invent a solid invisible field of energy then we can create a Holodeck which would trap light in sort of microscopic force field containers.