Looking to the Future of Video Gaming

Put simply, the future of video gaming looks pretty darn exciting from here. Technologies that could revolutionise the industry are tantalisingly close, with some of them in prototype stage, some already with us. In recent years, we’ve seen the internet used as a means of creating games on a global scale, and the internet looks set to remain the main tool in the crafting of gaming’s future.

As well as continuing to progress in an online capacity, gaming’s also set to merge into other media, like TV, and could eventually be played out inside our own minds. No really. The dreams of the 50’s science-fiction writers could soon become reality.

First up to revolutionise our gaming future is a technique called procedural generation. In future, this technique will eventually allow the creation of games that can learn, and change themselves, to suit individual players. In its current form, procedural generation has been used in the newest gaming sensation Spore, and it means that games designers only have to provide a gaming blueprint, allowing you the user to create your own game around that blueprint.

In a game like Spore, where you can ‘build your own infinite universe’, the computer doesn't have to store millions of possible planets and creatures for you to choose from, it just stores the methods by which they can be built, allowing you infinite possibilities when it comes to creating your own game. The game’s designed so players can link up online and explore/destroy each other’s creations, depending on their mood, thus creating a truly infinite game that players could spend the rest of their born days exploring while never reaching the end. So already the possibilities of gaming over the internet look a bit, well, scary. And it’s only 2009.

As we’ve seen in recent Myspace/Facebook/World Of Warcraft phenomena, people seem to like getting together online with people all over the world. And games companies such as Sega offering free online games to players worldwide are doing big business. As games companies are governed by what their customers want, it can be assumed that these gaming companies are already pumping big money into the online gaming field.

And with the upcoming 4G wireless internet miracle, players will soon have access to limitless games wherever they are. 4G will give you a 100Mbit/s connection anywhere. That’s anywhere. So expect to see even more bodies hunched over portable games consoles in future.

In the more distant future you can expect a weirder and more wonderful gaming world. With Virtual Retina Display, video games will be directly beamed onto your eyeball, so there’ll be no use for that pesky TV. And with Direct Brain Control, a computer-brain interface will allow you to play hands-free using only your mind. Sound far out? How about laptops embedded in sheets of paper and woven into your clothes? Yes, the future of gaming is one exciting place. And we can’t wait!

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