To my mind, there was a Sliding Doors moment during the winter, the result of which may well have had a massive bearing on the destiny of the Ashes series.
For the last few weeks my social media feeds have been clogged with identical arty screen-grabs of people standing in front of The Traveller, Destiny's massive mystery moon thing.
Narrative video games are transforming from sequences of discrete, self-contained adventures – as in the Uncharted series – to live, ongoing adventures where new content is continually plugged in, such as Destiny, DayZ and massive multiplayer titles including World of Warcraft.
For games that aren't Destiny, with a massive team brandishing the power to make changes effectively on the fly, the key is to make the experience one that can, theoretically, last forever without compromising on stuff-to-do front.
These companies are lean, they control their own destinies and they have massive global reach thanks to the iOS and Android platforms.
For them, biometric data is destiny: A person's genetic code, tracked through a massive database, determines their career, which, of course, affects everything.
I'm watching him play the beta for Destiny (impressions of which can be read here), the massive interplanetary shooter-epic from Halo house Bungie.
"We have 13 massive games coming up now and we are in control of our destiny".
"Getting to the last eight is no mean feat, just going to the World Champs is a massive thing and now it's up to me to go and qualify, destiny's in my hands".
It is about time for Europeans to take their destiny into their hands and to address it from both ends: the urgent need for massive development in Africa and sound management of the inescapable migratory flows from south to north.
