Why Video Games Succeed Where Hollywood Fails
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Fast-paced national/international news and issues program, from KCRW.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.0 | Is gaming leaving Hollywood in the dust? |
| 0:14.1 | Hello again, I'm Aran Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, |
| 0:18.0 | a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:20.5 | Last year's |
| 0:21.0 | top grossing movie took more than a month to make $1.2 billion. The latest grand theft auto |
| 0:26.1 | made a billion in just three days. Some 34 million core gamers play at least 22 hours a week, |
| 0:32.2 | and they're not just kids in the basement. Their parents, even members of Congress, and they're |
| 0:36.2 | socializing in virtual worlds |
| 0:38.2 | that can hold in the pawns of their hands. Gaming's a driver of popular taste and culture. Is it |
| 0:43.5 | changing human behavior for better or worse? Will it be influential in politics? Today's |
| 0:49.0 | talking point, 550 million voters in India make political history. First, here's the news. |
| 0:59.9 | Listen to KCRW's 24-hour all-news channel. Stream BBC World Service, NPRW programs. |
| 1:08.5 | Continuous coverage and accessible via our smartphone app or online at kCRW. |
| 1:15.0 | Support for To The Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International |
| 1:20.6 | Program Fund. Hello again, Moran Alney, back with To the Point. Gaming has become a multi-billion |
| 1:25.2 | dollar industry that shaping the cultural tastes of America, |
| 1:28.2 | not just for kids, but for more and more grown-ups, too. |
| 1:31.3 | Is it changing human behavior? |
| 1:32.9 | Will it have an impact on politics? |
| 1:35.0 | Today's talking point, euphoria from India to Times Square over a landslide election in India. |
| 1:41.5 | But in 2005, the man who will lead the world's largest democracy was denied a visa |
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