Furthermore, modern popular culture is hugely interactive, with blogs, chatrooms and specialist websites devoted to discussion of games, television shows and other phenomena.
The show's weekly format includes discussion of games played over the weekend, industry news, recently released games, and e-mails sent in by listeners.
When people talk about exclusivity and scarcity these days, discussions of game mechanics are never far behind.
In 1994, the film Quiz Show was released and, as part of the renewed discussion on game show scandals, Larson appeared on ABC's Good Morning America.
Visit any website devoted to hosting player discussions of games like World of Warcraft, for instance, and you'll find not hundreds but tens of thousands of comments flying between players who debate every aspect of the game, from weapon-hit percentages to mathematical analyses of the most efficient sequence in which to use a character's abilities.
For baseball fans, the discussion of the game is sometimes as exciting as the game itself.
Candy Crush Saga will continue to be a divisive game – and it's a fact that discussion of the game and its publisher online tends to be dominated by the haters – but it's not those people who King will be worrying about following its lucrative IPO.
Before the half time break of each game, the match commentators embarked on a discussion of the game statistics, which including an overview of the updated betting odds.
"Even as the discussion of the game's violence was at its shrillest, the sport was becoming safer," Michael MacCambridge writes in "America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation".
And discussion of the game online can make it seem like a joke.
