Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Where will the future of games come from? Another open world game? The same franchise you bought last year, but bigger? Researcher and game developer Michael Cook asks why and how we came to stop dreaming big, and why the only way we'll see real progress in video games is if we start making unreasonable demands.

Mike on Twitter: twitter.com/mtrc

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