It's not easy being a gamer. Here we are, participating in one of the most lucrative entertainment genres known to man, yet our beloved hobby is still largely ignored - or even ridiculed - by the majority of the Old Media, particularly television and Hollywood. Simply, good game movies/shows are incredibly scarce despite the fact that many gaming franchises come with a millions strong fanbase that stretches across national boundaries. Case in point: Warhammer 40K . If you don't know, Warhammer 40K is a science fiction universe set in the far distant future, specifically, the 41st Millennium. Unlike the sunshine and lollipops sci-fi futures of Star Trek and Star Wars , Warhammer 40K's future is unremittingly grim, as attested by this standard preamble to every 40K book (and there are many of those , including some New Zork Times bestsellers...praise the Emperor!): " It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuri...
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....