Here in 2025, a notion has begun to pick up steam in many communities: video games are dying. For some, video games and gaming itself is dead.

In spite of the fact that Gaming is the highest grossing form of media consumption in the United States, it is often argued that the influx of normies into the space, lazy and formulaic development that retreads well-worn ground, ham-fisted politics, and piss-poor optimization has ruined games.

In today's episode, we visit Reddit, one of the internet's most respected and intellectual sites, and tackle these questions head on in order to answer the pressing modern quandary: Are Video Games Dying?