Sport and stars notwithstanding, ratings are likely to go on falling, not just because of new television services, but also because television viewing is falling as children and teenagers increasingly spend time on computer games and the Internet.
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.
As a creative way of raising funds for his charity, the Luol Deng Foundation , he's organized an event where fans can come and take him on at his favourite computer games.
For one, their games run on computer servers so they don't have to worry about selling compact discs or game cartridges.
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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The Florida retiree banks online, files taxes online, books travel online and views football games on his computer while watching another game on TV.
And, they found, the actual number of illicit digital copies of computer games accessed on BitTorrent is nowhere near as high as claimed, with only around 12.6 million unique peers worldwide sharing illicit copies of games.
Young engineer Nolan Bushnell sat down in the mid-1970s, looked at the falling prices of memory chips, extrapolated where they would be in a couple years and precisely predicted when computer games played on college computers would be cheap enough to operate in bars.
According to a new survey conducted online in October 2011 by Harris Interactive on behalf of GameHouse among over 2, 000 U.S. adults, more than half (55%) of online gamers (people who play online games on their computer, social networking sites, or mobile devices) are women.
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.
This raises the interesting notion of parents locking teenagers in their bedrooms, forcing them to play computer games for hours on end.
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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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Like many other programs, Origin uses a web-like syntax to keep track of the places games are found on a computer so they can quickly be started when people want to play.
It just kept on getting better and better for HMV as computer games arrived, along with DVDs.
Moreover, as a result of owning their tablet, 40% of tablet gamers played games less often on a laptop computer while 39% played less often on a desktop computer.
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With the growing popularity of social media devices, computer games, and general computer use, it will be important to focus on ways to reduce sitting time while engaging in these activities.
As such, an album of cover versions played on computer simulations of the sounds chips of contemporary games systems and computers is the perfect blend of musical precision and gratuitous technomacho fiddling.
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Overall, those most at risk for a vitamin-D deficiency were older, female, obese, drank milk less than once a week, and spent more than four hours a day watching TV, playing video games, or working on a computer.
The need to study at cram schools in the evening, the tendency for students to unwind at 24-hour convenience stores on their way home and the lure of computer games at home means the trend is likely to worsen.
And while the crew at Firaxis is busy working on the next computer strategy game, traditional board strategy games have been making a revival as well.
Computer games as we know them are played on powerful computers and are rich with big-screen graphics, movie-like soundtracks and fast action.
The 100, 000 Lux show will be created on the outside of Abertay's Centre for Excellence in Computer Games Education.
It was Davies' first time on a bike on the circuit, although he prepared for his bow by playing computer games.
So anything that would improve the visual aspect of the games, as they couldn't do it on the computer screen yet.
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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It had developed dozens of computer and video games for most major platforms, including games based on Pirates of the Caribbean and Batman Begins.
They can surely put on a pair of glasses to make it even more special. 3-D computer games should appeal, too.
My own career has been the beneficiary of any number of fads that came and went computer games that sold millions and now barely qualify as second round questions on Jeopardy!
Students can easily take notes in class, children can play games, artists and designers can make sketches or draw directly on their computer screens and the corporate user can answer emails or work on a spreadsheet as they move between meetings.
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The new generation is finding games on them so intuitive that they will have a hard time getting back to gaming on the computer or on the DS. They will only accept a minimal amount of button-pushing.
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