... have enjoyed unprecedented growth during the last two years. The value chain in the game industry The game industry comprises all businesses that are part of a value chain which starts with content creation and ends with devices, which the customer needs in order to access and use the final products and services. The value chain model shows the links in the chain that ... creates the value and also allows us to specify the main players' roles in the game industry. the structure of the value chain in the game industry Creation Development Publishing PhysicalDistribution ElectronicDistrib...

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... , on the couch playing one of these morbid video games(359). "And they ended their spree by shooting themselves in the head, the final scene of the game Postal, and, in fact, the only way to end it"(359). Grossman states "pilots train on flight simulators, drivers train on driving simulators ... effects. These games started off with just gangsters and aliens doing the killing. Now it seems like there is an all out war in the video game industry. We are able to run over pedestrians, kill cops, innocent bystanders, SWAT teams and various other figures of authority(360). Video games give .....

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... Some members of Congress have realized that they can never stop the violence in video games; doing so would violate the first amendment (McNamara, 45). Game 8 - companies have claimed that if they were told to stop the production of certain games, it would be the same as stopping newspapers from ... printing certain stories (McNamara, 45). Congress has rather chosen to try and stop the marketing of games to younger game players. Liberman feels that younger gamers are more impressionable and the ultra violent games can be dangerous to them (Burk, 4). Advertising has ... already been limi...

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... Dr. Karen E. Dill, two psychologists who study teenage behavior. The conducted two studies to try to relate aggressive behavior to violent video game playing. The first study involved two-hundred and twenty-seven college students. They studied the aggression trait in every student and then asked them ... problem. These stages are defining the problem, crafting the official response, reacting to the official response and developing alternative strategies. The first video game, Pong, was released in the early seventies. At this time, games were considered non-violent and safe. But when Pa...

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... a simulation of real life. I still remember the day I got my first console, I was five years old and it was Christmas. My parents set up a little game with clues to find my present. I finally found the last clue which brought me back to where I started, my bedroom. As I looked under my bed as the ... a princess. I once had this dream but I didn't like to read as do many youths today. What better way to fulfill that dream then to play a game like Dungeons and Dragons , which whisks you back to that era and with the realism on the new consoles, it almost like you right there. It lets you ...

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... tone to match the action on screen. In 1987 the Legend of Zelda as well as the first Final Fantasy game broke new ground with their sweeping and cinematic musical scores, considered by fans and historians to be the best video game music ever made (Final Fantasy). During the early 90's Sega Cd was introduced, it was at this time that the amount of ... addition to knowing what exactly what sounds would need to be developed; the sound designer requires specific details about the game. It is important that he know what type of playback system the consumer will use and the confines the final...

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... come up with unique ideas and then copyright them to avoid competitors using his ideas. The next year Atari released a racing game, a football game, and their famous tank game (http://hmk.best.vwh.net/ahistory.htm). By the end of 1974 Atari had developed a home version of Pong. It ... product that would feature home entertainment. The growth and expansion of the first Atari products were phenomenal. Atari jump-started the home video game industry by being the first company to seriously leverage 8-bit microprocessor technology exclusively through video games. Atari made headlines being th...

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... it all unless the 2600 had never sold, because the Atari 2600 was just a figment of the team's imagination until they realized how the stand-up arcade game Pong brought them money. Pong was one of the most played games because one it was addictive and two because it had about no end. The Atari ... the first role role-playing games. Many are out today. One of the most famous ones is Final Fantasy, which has sold millions of copies. Role-playing games let you take place of the hero character of the game and end up having to save the world or worlds. In Adventure you take the place of the ....

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... have whilst building a city, empire or army etc. These games readily involved configuring various parts of the keyboard and mouse to allow the game to be played effectively. The player literally has the power to control everything within the city's or worlds they create, from obtaining fundamental ... to the consoles of today or next generation? Today's consoles are tiny supercomputers which have immense graphical processing power, systems like the Playstation 1/2, Nintendo Game Cube and the Microsoft X box, have enhanced gaming to such a degree, that it's like having a arcade in your ho...

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... primary support, it is the case for the "generation Y" and video games. Zelda: The oracle of time, Mario Bros or Final Fantasy can easily be compared to master pieces of theater or cinema as regard to the cultural impact these games have on today's youth. The ... of them are interpretation of past historical events, attempting to sever ties to common ideas on a period for instance. Soldats Inconnus (Unknowned Soldiers) A game that was recently released taking place during world war one where the player incarnates a soldier, nothing new so far. Except that the player will not ... sentenc...

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... into a new area of interactive entertainment where story and strategy drive development of the product. As with all development companies the Relic game designers start with a concept, which may be handed to them or may be one they created themselves, a new trend in ... to be approved (by the development teams employer) and then full-scale production can begin. When full-scale production begins, the initial game design gives the production team (programmers, artists and one or more producers) a starting point for development. Artists generate concept sketches and ... After this stage i...

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... overheard was a mother and her son debating over the fact about why he could not get a new video game. The son was pleading his case about a game that had just come out. He said that this game was the coolest game to come out this year, or ever, only because it came with a new controller. Now, the mother ... and forth the debate went, and the son came back to rebuttal some more, and said that the game was only fifty dollars, and the controller was one hundred and fifty dollars. Since mom is always the final say, she told her son to remember what she had just said, and that the answer w...

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... of human memory (Askham). Interactive games generally take the form of multi-linear narratives, which is why "Run Lola Run" has been compared to a video game. Cause and effect, or causality, is one of the central motifs of the film, and refers to the relationship between two events, wherein the second ... so does the eventual outcome." Lola's "determination to succeed ", as well as "her confidence in her own ability ", seem to be far greater in the final part of the film (Kosta). This is shown in the way she evades the dog on the stairs and then growls back at him, whereas in the ... her...

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... as props or bystanders and they are the ones who usually need rescuing by a male character. You don't even have to begin playing the game before you realize that boys are the primary target of manufacturers and merchants. Just by examining the cover of some top selling games such as ... Medal of Honor (Frontline), Mortal Kombat, NHL Fever, Resident Evil, Spiderman, Final fantasy, WWF, Smackdown, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Army World War Teams, it is plain to see that females are not directed towards buying them. I ... . Usually video games are designed with male characters primarily perf...

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