But the computer-games maker is dominated by Isao Okawa, its chairman and biggest shareholder.
Sony's argument that teenagers need to be shown how to use its PlayStation computer-games console is ridiculous.
Several of Roambi's developers come from the computer-games industry, where expertise in producing great graphics on small screens is plentiful.
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The game was spreading beyond basements, particularly influencing the nascent computer-games industry.
Such dilemmas have always been pertinent to players in the motor industry, though at a time when technologies - ranging from computer games to on-the-go access to work - seem to be what wows consumers, it is possible that research and development budgets, rather than the latest model launches, offer the best clue to which carmakers will succeed in the years ahead.
While strands of DNA may be able to pick fights with other strands, one thing that they can't do yet is play computer games -- that is, until now.
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They can surely put on a pair of glasses to make it even more special. 3-D computer games should appeal, too.
For a generation brought up on British 8-bit computer games, there was and is only one true Olympian, and that is Daley Thompson.
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He established his first studio Adventures Unlimited Software, Inc. in 1983, where he acted as the lead designer and programmer of several fantasy role-playing computer games.
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In the meantime, gaming has been dominated by consoles connected to TVs on the one hand (a market divided among Nintendo, Sega and Sony), and CD-ROM computer games on the other.
Duncan was among 50 people arrested in a handful of states last week, and authorities said he was a leader in the organization accused of running nearly 50 gambling parlors offering computer slot machine-style games.
With the advent of computer games, the way people look at role-playing games is different than it was in 1980.
And any number of computer games could work - not just Tetris.
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One gaming website voted him the joint 18th-most-influential person in computer games, quite an honour for someone who hardly played them.
Recently-released movies and computer games were then sold on via an internet auction site as "genuine goods" and with prices slightly lower than shops.
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Suspense is actually just one of the many ways in which computer games are becoming more film-like.
If what you're good at has no social value, like playing Nintendo, you might want to get a job at a computer-game store, or you might want to take a course in designing computer games.
If stockbrokers are struggling in such good times, what might happen if the market slumps, or day-traders go back to other computer games?
"It was probably the same as the computer games explosion of the '90s - that's the equivalent of what these children were being exposed to, " said Mr Wetherell.
His campaign committee has a proposal (from an as-yet-unnamed designer) for computer and video games that will applaud his record and explain what he wants to do in a second term.
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President and co-founder of Emotiv Systems, Tan Le, said the brain-to-computer interface was undoubtedly the future for video games.
Other games have used AI to make a computer-controlled opponent harder to beat by letting them cheat.
Such growth has been fuelled by the expansion of digital-media work, like the design of computer games, in which Britain is a world leader.
And the indications here are not especially encouraging: the average 15-year-old boy spends four times as long playing computer games as reading, and almost half of fathers have ever read to their children, according to a survey published on Wednesday by Waterstone's.
It is a hand-held version of the more elaborate role-playing games that keep youngsters glued to TV and computer monitors.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to exporting e-sports to the West is a lingering belief that playing computer games is not a proper job an idea that would no doubt sound familiar to pioneers of professional sports from tennis to snooker.
The stakes are high in computer graphics, thanks to a growing number of three-dimensional applications ranging from games to Google Earth.
Coalition military leaders examine these and other "what-ifs" time and again in "war games" and computer exercises, using "red teams" playing the role of enemy.
In exchange they were allowed to share meals and pray together, have nearly round-the-clock recreation time as well as access to satellite TV, computer games and classes.
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