Video game industry benefits from Writer's Strike?

Weren't able to catch your TV programs because of the writer's strike? Well pick up your controller and play video games.

At least, that's what Joseph Olin, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, thinks will happen to you and every other stranded TV viewer left high and dry by the strike.

Olin believes that the strike will actually help the video game industry. Unlike TV media at large, video game writers that are part of the Writer's Guild of America are not under the jurisdiction of the current strike. Says Joseph Colin:

If you're a fan of network programming, maybe seeing another repeat of "Pushing Daisies" or "Cold Case" will inspire you to finish that level of Ratchet and Clank Future instead.

There's a much better relationship between game developers and publishers than there appears to be in terms of all the polemics between the writers, producers and studios.

On a lighter note of the strike, video game writers may be getting their due as well as the 2008 WGA awards will be recognizing video game writing as well. The move hopes to raise the profile of video game writers.