He is having an existential crisis about finding self worth while working in an entertainment industry. He then blames everyone else for not having the exact same values as him.

I agree, it sounds like the author is arguing that the direction games take needs to change, in order to promote a positive cultural shift.

He sounds like he's thought a lot about what he's writing about, but it seemed like he sometimes spent several paragraphs speaking from the opposite perspective of his own, in a way that was a bit jarring.

Yeah, I don't get it either. It reads like someone who smoked a bunch of pot and is spouting off various, insanely vaguely related points but with no clear thesis whatsoever.

The point is alluded to in the article. He is writing to elicit emotion in order to subtly market his two brand new games.

I swear to god this article is harder read than Nietzsche