The new Grand Theft Auto is coming. How will the latest entry in a now-25-year-old franchise adapt to a new era of gaming? George Osborn muses in his Video Game Industry Memo):

The game’s often distasteful, but undoubtedly entertaining, subversion worked in a world where the industry was young, concerns about the medium ran rampant and the franchise itself was seen as a growing part of that. The world, though, changed….

The idea that ‘games can be for adults’ has shifted...