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We're about in year five or six of the web-aggregation craze, where much of the innovation and venture capital dollars ($10 million for Flipboard!?) has gone to startups that package, parse, optimize and deliver content. (content, by the way, is what we started to call journalism, essays, photos, movies, etc. during this era.)

As game developers and publishers look more and more to digital distribution as a way to bypass current brick-and-mortar game sellers -- in part to cut down on game reselling, a major loss to their bottom line -- we could be witnessing the beginning of a new model of game development. In the future, when you drop $60-$70 on a new game, you might just be buying the game engine and the background art, with the knowledge that the developers will be releasing content packs that provide entirely new, self-contained game experiences that build off the original title.