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Video games are good for you!
Bigger than the cinema box office, bigger than music and bigger than books, the video games industry is big business. Global software revenues exceed £30 billion a year, and are predicted to rise to nearly £60 billion a year by 2015. Yet its growth and success are little known. Games are played by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
By Ian Livingstone | Bytesize, Digital Digest, Notebook | Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 1:04 pm
Tomb Raider: Why play up to the Madonna/whore dichotomy?
The gaming industry’s legendarily deft touch has hit the news again this afternoon, with the news that Lara Croft is to gain a bit more of a personality in her upcoming game.
By Tom Mendelsohn | Games, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at 5:38 pm
Tomb Raider: Crossroads and the rebirth of the ultimate gaming heroine
In the latest addition to the franchise Lara Croft is dirty, she screams a lot, and she is hesitant. ‘I hate tombs,’ she says. Really?
By Sophie Warnes | Arts, Games | Friday, 1 June 2012 at 3:29 pm
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