Video games? Pah, have some bells, whistles, and TV programming. Yes, we've come to the point when video games are no longer about video games, but about dogs, used games practices, and multimedia tie-ins. It was disappointing to see few new game announcements at Microsoft's Xbox One unveiling -- and there are many, many more worrying things about the new console -- but the prospect of a TV series based on the Halo mythology, and one produced by Steven Spielberg, was interesting. And to have it air only on Xbox Live? Well, that's just par for the course these days and Microsoft is just now joining the ranks of Netflix and Amazon, who already carved away a comfortable niche of TV programming from traditional platforms like dusty old NBC and FOX. You don't need to watch TV on a TV anymore. But anyone who's used Hulu or Crackle or a smartphone for the past several years has known that.
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