Blizzard is a great entertainment studio. I'm one of the 10,5 million subscribers of World of Warcraft since April 2005. I don't play very often (I have one character). But it's still the only "game" (not simulator) which makes fun to play regularly a few hours per week over many years, because it continuously changes and grows, and it's a 24 hours real time world including more than 10.000 characters almost on each server (actually realm).
I have no doubt that the game industry already takes over parts of the TV but also cinema industry. Just look at the game consoles. Many people don't just want to watch TV. They rather like to play something. And look how much efforts are done today to create games. Real orchestras play and record game music today. And not to mention development costs, which was amazingly 40 million USD for Half Life 2 for example.
I also have no doubts that computer technology on the whole will significantly shrink paper-use in the long term, meaning to replace news papers and books in the wide future. Daily life is going to be centered around computer technology. With a computer you can do almost anything. Compared to that, with a news paper or a TV you can't do almost nothing really, while paper actually just is usless waste once your eyes are finish to just scan the ink.
I personally don't own a TV anymore for almost 6 years now. I also don't need any news papers. All the informations I need and want I can get easily and fast via internet and streams at any time and on almost any place.
