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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\nPhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n
Nobody games alone anymore. That\u2019s never been strictly the case, anyway. Video games have always been relatively social, despite the old basement-dwelling, Cheeto-stained stereotypes. It\u2019s 2019: we\u2019re all gamers now. Part of that is because video games are more accessible now than they ever have been \u2014 smartphones are just tiny consoles! \u2014 but another part of it is also that games are more visible now. They go viral just like everything else does. (Honk<\/a>!) That second bit, however, is relatively new. Games are more visible because the way we share them with each other has changed. And a big reason for that is the PlayStation 4. <\/p>\n It all started with the console\u2019s design. Back in 2010, according to our friends over at Polygon<\/em><\/a>, its designers…<\/p>\n \n Continue reading\u2026<\/a>\n <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge Nobody games alone anymore. That\u2019s never been strictly the case, anyway. Video games have always been relatively social, despite the old basement-dwelling, Cheeto-stained stereotypes. It\u2019s 2019: we\u2019re all gamers now. Part of that is because video games are more accessible now than they ever have been \u2014… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t