David Rejeski in Why We Need a Corporation for Public Gaming argues that the USA needs the gaming equivalent to PBS.
However, serious games, like serious TV, are likely to remain a sidebar in the history of mass media. Non-commercial television floundered, despite millions of dollars of investment by the Ford Foundation, until the government stepped in and created a viable and long-lasting alternative. With similar vision and foresight, and a relatively small amount of funding, this could happen with video and computer games.
Interesting idea. What would the Canadian equivalent be? The “Canadian Gaming Corporation”?