No new genres.
There haven't been any truely new genres in at least 10 years. However saying that Half-Life 2 (for example) isn't a vast improvement over Platoon is a pretty far stretch, just because they're the same genres. They are right.
No they aren't. I know at least one immotion (anger) that some games bring, particularly if they suck and I pay 70 bucks for it. Also many games are quite frustrating - that's another emotion.There are lots of games that provoke thought and emotion - usually however that's not a good idea, because Jack Thompson (and the morons like him who think video games should be a passive pass time, like Movies and Books) would be all over it in a minute.