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Article: MULTIPLAYER GAMES THE NEW WAVE OF VIDEO
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2005
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The entertaining and vivid "Smartbomb" brings video games to life
in all their bewildering, provocative, and disturbing forms.
Not only do Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby introduce us to the
inventors of the video game, the wife-and-husband team communicate
the atmosphere that has made video games a business approaching $10
billion in annual sales in the United States alone and the basis of
wildly proliferating virtual communities. They also connect the dots
between the industry and the military.
In 2001, sales of video games surpassed movie box-office receipts
for the first time. In the latter part of 2005, "Doom," starring The
Rock (who might be viewed as a real-life action figure), became ...