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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
What’s happened to British gaming?
The videogame industry in the UK is rather like Manchester City. Not the City of today. No, that’s where it would like to be. We’re talking the City of yesterday when it was slipping down the league because no-one was offering assistance.
By David Crookes | Games, Notebook | Monday, 24 October 2011 at 5:49 pm
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