[talentdeficit]

i work at a startup populated by ex-EA, radical and rockstar employees.

i'm not claiming there's zero innovation in games programming, but it's almost all at the library level, over which only a very few people will have any real input. dx10 is interesting, but for the people actually making games, it's just another api.

valve, which is probably one of the better places to work if you're interested in innovation, recently 'innovated' spin locks for threading!

i'm not trying to claim games programming is on par with writing intranet web clients to payroll databases or anything, but it is not the field to be in if you want to work in unsolved design space and emerging fields.