Like so many American creations — baseball, comic books, rock 'n' roll — the video game is a mongrel art form. Literature, music, art and film all get jumbled together in this relatively new medium, but even that isn't enough: Designers have to ...
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Games consoles have become 'the new boardgames' which can be enjoyed by the entire family, not just an antisocial teenager, according to new research. Easy to use games, like the Wii Fit - where players can play games such as golf, boxing and bowling ...
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More than 82 million video games were sold in the UK last year, says the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) . The industry body says the sales, which totaled £1.9bn, were 23 percent higher than the previous year. Of ...
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UK sales of video game hardware and software in 2008 have lept to £4.034 billion, so say industry body ELSPA. Looks like fans of video games are refusing to listen to the doom-sayers and have been buying video games in ever larger numbers taking ...
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New program for 3rd to 6th graders will give kids a chance to play favorite video games against peers. Library owns multiple gaming systems including Wii and Playstation 2, and numerous popular games such as Rock Band, Super Smash Bros., and Dance ...
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30 percent fewer PC games sold at retail in 2008 than 2007, but massive console growth saves industry's blushes. Despite the bleak outlook for some in the games industry, UK retail trade body the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has ...
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The UK's video game publishers' representative body ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) is announcing a record-breaking year for its members. Using data from Gfk Chart-Track, ELSPA states that, "Total videogames software ...
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