With demand growing,the D.C.area - including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs - has about 100 game-oriented technology firms.

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"It was a very family-oriented area with rows and rows of houses, " he said.

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This metropolitan area, anchored by universities and technology-oriented industries, is among the lowest-density regions in the country, with under 1, 700 persons per square mile, slightly less than Charlotte, Nashville and Atlanta.

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