The video game industry involves the development, marketing and sale of video games. It employs thousands of people worldwide and is a multi billion dollar industry, pulling in about $9.5billion (a new record) last year (2007). It is continually expanding and becoming more and more complex, with games companies striving to develop new ways in which games can be played. Because of the video games industrys development we have seen developments in other technologies such as sounds cards, graphics cards and CD Roms, all of which have developed further specifically to encompany the new innovations in gaming.
The video gaming industry is a reasonably recent industry (go back about 40 years and there would be little or no trace of any games at all) that provides jobs such as; Game programming, Game Designing, Level Designing, Game Producing, Game Testing and many more.
The video gaming industry is also victim to a lot of controversy because of the problem that games often involve violent content and can be addictive (sometimes causing loss of quality of players life). There is also the question of where to draw the line between reality and virtual reality.
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