Videogame is a new industry regarding macro economics...
Since "Computer Space" in 1971, then "Pong", so many steps:
-Console competition: Atari, SEGA, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft to mention a few past and current actors
-PC on the game, joining the challenge, increasing incredibly
-Online gaming, gaming bing bang
-Mobile gaming, really started?
-Serious games, serious things!
-Casual gaming, really only a new genre?
-Social gaming, a new trends...
Gaming is interactivity, exchange and discovery: Barcamp is the place for that topic!
Anything to add?
Initiative is about to start somewhere between now and Christmas in Paris GameCampParis
More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videogame
Philjeudy