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The digital revolution, instead of a violent and bloody overthrow, has been a long, creeping process. Take media on demand: In case you haven't noticed, it's already happened. iTunes and Napster have brought music downloads into the mainstream, and though Hollywood still bites its nails in anxiety at the thought of video downloads, Google Video and iTunes are bringing TV down a road that movies will inevitably plod down themselves.
Games are part of this new paradigm—the difference being that game studios have little of the queasiness that has marked the music and movie industries' efforts to get with the 21st century. Instead, having pioneered digital delivery, games have a tradition to look back to and build from.