It is no small secret that the gaming industry is in fairly dire straits right now. Extremely talented staff are being laid off, entire studios are being shut down, and all the while, budgets for AAA blockbuster releases are hitting the realm of $300 million, and game development is taking far longer than ever before. It feels as if the gaming industry will collapse in on itself should it continue at the rate it is going, as none of this is even remotely sustainable.