On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children's apps for phones and tablets gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off their games.

去年春天，在一个寒冷的日子里，几十名基于手机和平板电脑的儿童应用程序开发者相聚在加利福尼亚州蒙特雷（Monterey, California）的一个古老海滩度假胜地，展示他们的游戏。

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Jobs returned to California and briefly took a job at Atari, one of the first games companies, to save money for a trip to India.

乔布斯回到了加利福尼亚，为了攒钱去印度，他在雅达利公司找了一份工作，雅达利公司是史上第一批游戏公司之一。

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One such company is Image Metrics in Santa Monica, California, which specialises in creating digital faces for films and games.

这些公司中有一家是在加州(California)桑塔·莫妮卡(Santa Monica)的“图像矩阵公司”，它专门为电影或者游戏创作数字面孔。

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However, the two creators are now suing Warner Brothers and games developer 5th Cell in a California court over the appearance of the cats in the popular game Scribblenauts, published by WB Games.

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In theory, the controversial law he passed in California impacted the very Terminator 3 games he made money off of.

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And as the maker of popular titles like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, San Francisco, California-based Zynga has ridden the games' skyrocketing popularity to the top of that emerging market.

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