Are you a player? Take a look at the $18 billion video game industry. CNBC's Playing to Win: Inside the Video Game Industry is a behind the scenes look at the creators, games and big business of video games. Enter a virtual world where everyone is Playing to Win!
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Inside the Industry
It looks like a college campus a week after finals. But don’t let the chilled out setting fool you. This is headquarters of the NFL, the Mafia and 007. Well, at least their virtual counterparts. Playing To Win goes behind the scenes at one of the world’s largest videogame publishers, Electronic Arts and talks with founder Trip Hawkins.
It looks like a college campus a week after finals. But don’t let the chilled out setting fool you. This is headquarters of the NFL, the Mafia and 007. Well, at least their virtual counterparts. Playing To Win goes behind the scenes at one of the world’s largest videogame publishers, Electronic Arts and talks with founder Trip Hawkins.
Video Game Violence
Violence in the media is nothing new. But video games are different. Their audiences can shoot back. And that gets a lot of people up in arms. Playing To Win chronicles video game violence from Death Race to Grand Theft Auto.
Violence in the media is nothing new. But video games are different. Their audiences can shoot back. And that gets a lot of people up in arms. Playing To Win chronicles video game violence from Death Race to Grand Theft Auto.
Games for Health
Believe it or not, there are video games that are actually good for you. They’re known as Serious Games, games that educate as well as entertain. Meet Ben Duskin, the eight year-old boy who created a video game to help young victims of cancer.
Believe it or not, there are video games that are actually good for you. They’re known as Serious Games, games that educate as well as entertain. Meet Ben Duskin, the eight year-old boy who created a video game to help young victims of cancer.
Virtual Worlds
Whether it was Barbie or G.I. Joe, girls and boys alike have always played with some sort of doll. With the best selling video game, The Sims, the dollhouse came to life, inspiring online virtual worlds like Second Life where grownups are making real money playing pretend.
Whether it was Barbie or G.I. Joe, girls and boys alike have always played with some sort of doll. With the best selling video game, The Sims, the dollhouse came to life, inspiring online virtual worlds like Second Life where grownups are making real money playing pretend.
A Billion Dollar Industry
As the video game industry posts record ($18 billion in 2007) sales, the goal is to continue to move beyond traditional guy gamers. In the industry’s ideal world, everybody would have a video gamer device. The truth is, that world is already at our fingertips.
As the video game industry posts record ($18 billion in 2007) sales, the goal is to continue to move beyond traditional guy gamers. In the industry’s ideal world, everybody would have a video gamer device. The truth is, that world is already at our fingertips.
RELATED LINKS
- Halo 3: The Business Behind the Game
- Slide Show: Halo 3 Launch
- Halo 3 Official Web Page
- Xbox 360
- Nintendo
- Sony PlayStation 3
- Atari
- Computer and Video Game History
- The First Video Game
- The Ultimate History of Video Games
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