But one movie theater in Spain has reinvented one of its screens as a big-screen video game arcade. The article quotes one of the developers as saying, “We see the future with multiplexes with five screens, one for the traditional Hollywood spectaculars and the others for screens for video halls and 3-D. That’s the next step.” With the decline in theater attendance and the ascendence of video games as the popular entertainment of choice for so many (game receipts overtook box office returns in 2001), I’m almost surprised it took this long for some clever theater owner to develop a hybrid. One step closer to the holodeck, I suppose…