The video game industry (formally referred to as interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and employs thousands of people worldwide.
Considered by some as a curiosity in the mid-1970s, the computer and video gaming industries have grown from niche markets to mainstream. They took in about USD$9.5 billion in the US in 2007, and 11.7 ...
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The video game industry (formally referred to as interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and employs thousands of people worldwide.
Considered by some as a curiosity in the mid-1970s, the computer and video gaming industries have grown from niche markets to mainstream. They took in about USD$9.5 billion in the US in 2007, and 11.7 billion in 2008 (ESA annual report).
Modern personal computers owe many advancements and innovations to the gaming industry: sound cards, graphics cards and 3D graphic accelerators, CD ROM and DVD-ROM drives, Unix and CPUs are a few of the more notable improvements. Unix in particular was developed in part so that the programmers could play a space traveling game.
Sound cards were developed for addition of digital-quality sound to games and only later improved for music and audiophiles. Early on graphics cards were developed for more colors....
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