I think that an agreement about the label ascribed to the medium of games is an important step towards Game Studies finding purchase in mainstream academia. I agree that the phrase "video game" implies a game played using a video output device, while neglecting input variances. In this way, it is a useful phrase for the media to use in general interest articles, and as a reference point for the general, non game playing public. However, it is similar in tone to the word "movie", at least to my ears, in that it describes the most basic distinguishing characteristic instead of the medium itself. However, the word "videogame" or hyphen "video-game" seems too simple in attempting to encompass everything. However, "Interactive Entertainment" won't work either, as it would included things like digital comics or the terrible sega cd movie things like "Night Trap" or whatever it was called. "Digital Games" runs into a similar problem in defining what a game can be qualified as, as well as being the name of a studio if I remember correctly. This doesn't even include the social differences between console and PC gamers, or even between competitive, hardcore, and casual gamers. I don't know, maybe we should just reference the medium as the "Interactive Integrated Audio Video Feedback Simulation Medium." Or maybe just call them Games, with the understanding that it refers to any interactive experience that has the possiblity of failure to finish the narrative. Seems to work for Film.