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| | GAMESBASE: Computer & Video Game Text Database |
| | Computer gaming began with the release of the Apple II in 1977; arcade games followed shortly thereafter. | | | The games are from numerous different genres and platforms. | | | The electronic gaming phenomenon can be traced back to 1972, when Atari introduced Pong, an electronic table-tennis game, to the world. |
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http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca/comgames/intro.htm
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| | Record Computer and Video Game Sales in 2004 |
| | Video game players most often purchased action (30.1%), sports (17.8%), and shooter titles (9.6%). | | | Comparable video game numbers for 2003 were 10, 57, and 163 respectively. | | | In terms of total units sold, approximately 248 million computer and video games were sold in 2004 -- nearly two games for every home in America by ESA estimates. |
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http://www.writenews.com/2005/021105_gamesales_04.htm
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| | Women's Game Conference |
| | Her research focuses on digital games--including game players and the game industry. | | | Game Designer with Sony Online Entertainment and author of the book, "Gender Inclusive Game Design-Expanding the Market." She has served as the co-chair for the Women in Game Development SIG of the IGDA for 4 years and has been a spokesperson for the female game player for many years. | | | As one of the founders of the annual “Women in Gaming” sessions at the Game Developers Conference in 2000, Fryer is dedicated to fostering the role of women in the video game industry. |
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http://www.womensgameconference.com/media/05-17-2004.html
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| | LADYDRAGON.COM - E3 2001 - - 10 Facts about the Computer and Video game Industry - |
| | The average age of a game player is 28 years old. | | | All games are rated by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), and over 70% of games are rated "E" for Everyone. | | | In 2001, over 225 million computer and video games were sold, or almost two games for every household in America. |
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http://www.ladydragon.com/a-e32002facts.html
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| | Game studies. Issue 1, 2005. |
| | Because higher-quality games tend to sell better, game developers are increasingly looking for ways to improve their games... | | | Our mission - To explore the rich cultural genre of games; to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and theories; to provide an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming. | | | Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at www.gamestudies.org. |
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http://www.gamestudies.org
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| | Got Game?: |
| | The game of pool is the Devil’s own, and we are all liars, sinners, and cheats. | | | At the same time, players probably don’t completely ‘own’ everything there is to do with their character, it is created only through the use of the game, a game you don’t own, a game you bought a license to use for a bit. | | | As an educator, I have good students that are highly skilled in making games, willing to turn away from that career over stuff like this, preparing instead to work at small studios or in related fields because they can’t justify to themselves the lifestyle demanded by some pockets of the games industry. |
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http://gotgame.corante.com
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| | Video Game Industry to Sue Michigan's Governor - Next Level Gaming News |
| | "In 2004, the average game buyer was 37 years old and the average game player was 30. | | | According to the Federal Trade Commission, parents are involved in the purchase or rental of games 83% of the time, and industry data shows that nine out of ten parents monitor the games their kids play. | | | According to the ESA, given the bill's hopelessly vague language defining the game content subject to the Act, retailers will have no objective way to determine whether they are in compliance and game developers will not know if their products would be covered. |
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http://www.nlgaming.com/nl/asp/id_6135/nl/newsDisp.htm
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| | Left Behind Games |
| | Organizations have been placing their games on the Internet for consumer consumption either for the purpose of expanding their markets or as a way for companies not in the video game industry to gain entrance. | | | The demographics of the interactive industry continue to change as players who have grown up with games are now buying them as adults, as well as for their children. | | | A poll by IDSA of 1,600 households ranked computer and video games number one as their most enjoyable activity. |
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http://www.leftbehindgames.com/video_game_industry.htm
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| | ESRB Game Ratings - Game Rating & Descriptor Guide |
| | Playing the games with your children helps stimulate those discussions, and playing games as a family can also be a fun way to spend time together. | | | ESRB ratings have two parts: rating symbols suggest age appropriateness for the game, and content descriptors indicate elements in a game that may have triggered a particular rating and/or may be of interest or concern. | | | To search for games that are appropriate based on age categories and content, use our online ratings search feature. |
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http://www.esrb.org/esrbratings_guide.asp
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| | Salon Technology Doom, Quake and mass murder |
| | CNN said that the boys "reportedly played computer games often, spending hours trying to kill each other with digital guns and explosive devices." It then quoted a Columbine High School senior who said, "I don't believe violent video games lead to violence, but this was different. | | | Over at Quakefinger, a Web site that gathers game designers' personal notes and commentary, there were several contemplative and remorseful essays from the creators of the games themselves. | | | Some feared a possible ban on violent video games; others pointed out that they play games and don't shoot their classmates; still others advocated gun control. |
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http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/23/gamers
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| | GameSlice: Behind the Scenes of the Computer and Video Game Industry |
| | The game is an immaculate blend between action and adventure. | | | Designers need to figure out how to keep the player at 5 health for a long-period of time within the game, because it creates much more tension than quick-loading the game with 100% health and playing again. | | | In most 3D-action games you can avoid an enemy by just going around a corner and grabbing more heath – there was no fear they would follow you. |
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http://www.gameslice.com/editorial/1130hl.shtml
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| | Computer Video Game Magazine - RHC.com Computer Games |
| | computer video game magazine · computer war games · computer word games · cool action game · cool action games · cool arcade games · cool car game... | | | cheat computer game video cheat computer game video. | | | Computer Video Game Magazine - RHC.com Computer Games |
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http://www.redhotchilli.com/computer-video-game-magazine.htm
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| | Women's Game Conference |
| | The Women's Game Conference focuses on women in the computer and video game industry. | | | The conference focuses on a variety of women’s topics in the computer and video game industry including examining career paths for women in the industry and issues related to working in the industry as women as well as how women are portrayed in games and women and girls as consumers of games. | | | Would you like to be a panelist or moderate a round table discussion at the Women's Game Conference? |
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http://www.womensgameconference.com/proposals/panelists.html
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| | Computers - Computer Game Video |
| | Game Design Schools: Video Game and Computer Game Design, Game... | | | The history of home video games with essays concerning the industry and its players. | | | Free games, free game downloads, computer game demos, video game... |
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| | And 35% of all Americans identified computer and video games as the most fun entertainment activity. | | | The first thing you should know is just how diverse a game team is. So we've put together a pretty impressive list of Career Paths, grouped by category. | | | According to the ESA, 60% of all Americans age six and older, or about 145 million people, play computer and video games. |
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| | Computer Graphics World - ``Video Game Voters Network'' Launched; Grassroots Group Makes Gamers' Voices Heard on Policy ... |
| | The Video Game Voters Network opposes efforts to regulate the content of entertainment media, including proposals to criminalize the sale of certain games to minors, or regulate video games differently than movies, music, books, and other media. | | | Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them." | | | "Gamers can join together through the Video Game Voters Network to send a strong message to politicians to let them know that gamers care, that they vote, and that they will no longer tolerate these unconstitutional, unnecessary, and uninformed attacks on this important form of entertainment." |
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http://cgw.pennnet.com/news/display_news_story.cfm?Section=WIREN&Category=HOME&NewsID=132101
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| | GAMESBASE: Computer & Video Game Text Database |
| | Computer and video game boxes and manuals were gathered together, ads and reviews were photocopied from magazines and similar media, text from game screens was recorded by hand, and information from websites was saved to the hard drive. | | | As for materials from game screens, these were typed into the computer by hand. | | | The bibliographic informaton surrounding both the games and the sources from which the enteries were gathered were recorded in the database, as were the layouts of the original materials. |
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http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca/comgames/backgrnd.htm
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| | Computer Game Law |
| | As a "hard-core" gamer, Tom plays online on a regular basis and has a gamer's appreciation and understanding of the games and the industry. | | | As FaTe[F8S] Tom is the founder and Supreme Warlord of FaTe’s Minions, an online gaming "clan" that has been competing in various online competitions since January, 1998. | | | Just what are these games made of...legally speaking? |
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| | Geoff Keighley: Behind the Scenes of the Videogame Industry |
| | Hear the untold stories behind the biggest games and meet the people who devote their lives to building them. | | | NBA Ballers: Phenom from the NBA All Star Game in Houston. | | | Watch Game Head with Geoff Keighley, the #1 rated videogame show on TV. |
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http://www.gameslice.com
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| | VPC - From Gun Games to Gun Stores - Endnotes |
| | VPC - From Gun Games to Gun Stores - Endnotes | | | Back to From Gun Games to Gun Stores Table of Contents | | | Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List |
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| | Business Wire: Computer and Video Game Industry Expert Doug Lo... @ HighBeam Research |
| | Video games are changing the way people play, learn, and even work. | | | Computer and Video Game Industry Expert Doug Lowenstein of IDSA Available for Up-to-the-Minute Information. | | | The Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA), the trade association exclusively dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish computer and video games, is the one-stop source for statistics and information about the computer and video game industry for members of the media. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:66181772&refid=ink_tptd_np
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| | Game and Simulation Programming Degree at DeVry University |
| | Let DeVry's Game and Simulation Programming professionals prepare you for an exciting career in the computer and video game industry. | | | Learn to develop game and simulation software that employs the most contemporary functionality. | | | The U.S. Army alone plans to invest close to $100 million in training games and simulations over the next two to three years. |
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http://www.devry.edu/programs/game_and_simulation_programming/about.jsp
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| | ESA Foundation announces eBay auction benefiting children's charites - Gaming Age |
| | Brief: Dana Carvey to host computer and video game industry’s black tie dinner. | | | The fifth annual computer and video game industry charity auction featuring rare computer and video games and memorabilia and benefiting children's charities will be held from October 11 to 18 on eBay, The World’s Online Marketplace. | | | Twenty-six leading computer and video game companies have come together to support this year’s “Nite to Unite for Kids” benefit for children. |
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http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2004/10/6-13
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| | vi: Information From Answers.com |
| | Business Entertainment Games Health People Places Reference Science Shopping Words More... | | | Used in clusters of two or more computers, VI enables long blocks of data to be sent from one application in one machine directly to another application in a remote machine without the overhead associated with being broken up into packets by a transport protocol. | | | vi is a screen-oriented text editor computer program written by Bill Joy in 1976 for an early BSD release. |
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| | Obscure - The computer game industry |
| | General overview of the computer and video game industry. | | | This section contains a number of short articles that provide an overview of the game development and publishing industry. | | | A more specific set of articles can be found in the Features section available from the menu. |
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http://www.obscure.co.uk/industry.shtml
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| | The Canadian Video Game and Computer Industry - About Us |
| | The Canadian Video Game and Computer Industry - About Us About Us: | | | Professor Dyer-Witheford and co-authors Stephen Kline and Greig De Peuter have recently published a book on the computer and video game industry, titled Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture and Marketing. | | | Current research interests within the computer and video game industry include virtual economies, ownership issues concerning avatars and other virtual property and gender issues surrounding computers and video gaming. |
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| | WomenGamers.Com :: View topic - Online Video Game Charity Auction |
| | The sixth annual computer and video game industry online charity auction, benefiting children’s charities and featuring highly-prized computer and video games and memorabilia, begins today and runs through October 7 to 14th on eBay, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today. | | | WomenGamers.Com :: View topic - Online Video Game Charity Auction | | | Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:17 am Post subject: Online Video Game Charity Auction |
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http://www.womengamers.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12904
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| | CNET News.com -- Technology news and business reports |
| | California gang members to be tracked by GPS | | | It plans to publish findings from its third Blue Hat confab, where hackers give tips to Microsoft execs. | | | Seventy companies--including the major lobbying muscle for the age 50-plus set--call for law to combat threats to Web's openness. |
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| | Information and Communications Policy:Department |
| | China overtook the United States in 2004 to become the world’s leading exporter of information and communications technology (ICT) goods such as mobile phones, laptop computers and digital cameras, according to OECD data. | | | The Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP, www.oecd.org/sti/ict) addresses issues arising from the "digital economy", the developing global information infrastructure and the evolution towards a global information society. | | | Broadband penetration in the OECD grew by 15% in the first half of the year to 11.8 subscribers per 100 inhabitants. |
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http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34223_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
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