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Screenwriter and novelist Alex Garland says that the rapid growth of videogames means that some types of games may never get made. Garland, whose works include Sunshine and 28 Days Later and more recently helped write Ninja Theory’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, thinks that videogames have missed a few important steps in their development. Garland thought that videogames had jumped straight to “bloated Hollywood megabucks, mega-resources-type products,” and said that such a development was dangerous because it influenced the type of games that got greenlit. He made a comparison to his next movie, the new Judge Dredd film, saying […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/0/640.jpg