Space invaded: video games’ stunning growth
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
These days the gaming industry takes in much more than the global cinema box office. We ask how things are changing, from gamers’ demographics to the games’ content. And a year after our last conversation with Dmytro, a heartsick resident of the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, we check back in to see how he has been.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
| 0:04.6 | Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday. |
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| 1:05.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. I'm Jason Palmer. And I'm Oire Ugunbe. |
| 1:12.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.6 | If you were listening to the intelligence at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, |
| 1:26.3 | you'll recall some truly haunting dispatches |
| 1:29.0 | from a resident of Kharkiv we were in touch with. Today, we'll check back in with him to see how |
| 1:34.2 | the intervening year has been. |
| 1:47.0 | First up, though... Video games have come a long way since the days of Donkey Kong. |
| 2:00.0 | In the last 50 years, they've evolved for have come a long way since the days of Donkey Kong. |
| 2:07.6 | In the last 50 years, they've evolved from crude, blocky, 8-bit bloops, into sophisticated worlds that are often perpetually online with their own virtual economies. |
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