The Anennberg School for Communication at USC's Online Journalism Review interviews Claude "Louis Wu" Errera at HBO about what it's like to run an online community for a game like Halo, and why mainstream media outlets have been slow to pick up on trends in that area in the article Lord of the Ringworld.

OJR: Newspapers still sort of treat Halo and other massively successful game franchises as underground or outsider. A lot of the reporting is like "Gee, games make a lot of money, who knew?" Why are journalists so far behind the curve? What would you like to see in mainstream media reporting about games that's not there now?

I think journalists might be behind the curve simply because gaming became a successful adult entertainment outlet relatively recently. Not that long ago, video games were the domain of kids - I think there are just a lot of writers that haven't noticed the change. It's becoming clearer with every runaway success, though.

Thanks for the heads-up to GhaleonEB at HBO.