To see why, consider one of the things it takes to become an ace at, say, World of Warcraft, a hugely popular online fantasy game inhabited by griffins, trolls and other mythical creatures.

为什么呢？让我们来看看“魔兽世界”，一个非常流行的在线奇幻游戏，一个充斥着狮鹫，巨魔和其他神奇的生物的世界。

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Vivendi’s main gaming asset was Blizzard, the firm behind “World of Warcraft”, a wildly popular online fantasy game played by 12m paying subscribers.

威望迪的主要游戏资产是暴雪公司，它旗下的“魔兽世界”是一款广受欢迎的网上奇幻类游戏，拥有1，200万付费玩家。

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It has three popular, admired dramas in "Boardwalk Empire" (pictured, right) "True Blood" (a vampire series set in Louisiana) and "Game of Thrones" (a fantasy set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros).

它手握三部叫好又叫座的剧集：《大西洋帝国》(见右图)《真爱如血》(“True Blood”)(发生在路易斯安那州的吸血鬼故事)以及《权力游戏》(“Game of Thrones”)(一部背景设在维斯·特洛的七王国的幻想剧集)。

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Sports, the leading fantasy platform, will become the exclusive fantasy game provider of NBC Sports' Rotoworld, the premiere fantasy news and information site.

ENGADGET: NBC Sports and Yahoo Sports cut a deal to fuse internet, TV coverage

Or Spector might have spurned Disney and sought crowdfunding for Sleeping Giants, the epic fantasy game he mothballed to take on Mickey.

FORBES: Press Startup: Rubin, Spector And Others Talk Business in "Gamers at Work"

First Minister Peter Robinson has said he is hopeful Northern Ireland will be the location for any new series of the TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones.

BBC: Peter Robinson hopeful Game of Thrones will stay in NI