"It may be easy for you, but for me it's the most terrifying thing in the world, " says Joe, who is currently spending his days playing computer games with friends and occasionally practicing rugby with his father in the scorching 48 degree Celsius August heat.

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With the advent of computer games, the way people look at role-playing games is different than it was in 1980.

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Then, as now, there was talk of a new era, with electricity and the motor car playing the role of the Internet and the computer.

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The new Onkyo TX-NR807 also capable of playing computer music files from networked PCs, is fully compatible with the Digital Living Network Alliance's DLNA 1.5 consumer electronics interoperability specification, and sells for less than half the price of the company's previous network-capable model.

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But when Google began allowing video producers to charge money for footage, the playing field narrowed--right now, it's basically competing with Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iTunes store.

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Lewis, a longtime player of videogames and Dungeons and Dragons, the forerunner paper-and-pen role-playing game, graduated with a degree in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993.

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