State of Play: Six Trends Revolutionizing Games | Andreessen Horowitz

Gaming is expanding its reach into every part of our lives (education, medicine, music) and is becoming the foremost battleground for the future of big tech. This strikes me as analogous to the Facebook story from above. The market clearly believes video games represent a valuable opportunity, but may be underrating the scale by orders of magnitude... See more

The thing that we are seeing with Fortnite and Roblox is the shape of whatever is next. That social gaming space [is where] a lot of those primitives are emerging. There are these worlds or rooms or islands that are built by not the publisher and then you're seeing more of a social exploration than a true like, "Hey, I'm moving through level one, l... See more

This trend is driven in part by the rise in technical sophistication for more complex game ecosystems, which are expanding and becoming democratized through game engines like Unity and Unreal.