5.30am: British retailers are sweeping the Microsoft Flight Simulator computer game off their shelves after worries emerged that the US terrorists could have honed their flying skills using the game. By Julia Day.

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Computer games publisher Rage announced yesterday that full-year pretax losses had more than doubled to £17m.

John Cassy21 Aug

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Games industry warned to think bigger

It gave the world Lara Croft, the digitised heroine of Tomb Raider who brought in more foreign earnings than the Spice Girls at their peak. But the computer games industry, the jewel in the crown of Britain's new media revolution, may never again be able to develop a product with similar global blockbuster appeal.

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You've got to love LA. Any town with a pro shop called The Merchant of Tennis gets my vote.

David Docherty28 May

Zap! Go to the top of the class

Children who become addicted to computer games may actually be more intelligent than the average and go on to university and higher-ranking jobs, according to a Home Office research review published yesterday.

Alan Travis, home affairs editor24 Mar

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As night follows day, the hapless Christmas shopper will be met each year with a point blank shortage of the must-have consumable.

Raekha Prasad25 Nov

Zones of pure play

One thing nobody foresaw in the 50s was the extraordinary omnipresence of the screen in modern culture. Some of this ubiquity is more humdrum than dumb: consider that what does exist within the computer screen's boundaries is perforce arranged in a fantastically bureaucratic pattern. The metaphor of the computer "desktop" was useful in that it furnished spatial metaphors with which to arrange our work: putting this file over there, or in that folder, helps us by replacing the computer's obscure mathematical operations with an approximation of how we work with paper in real life. The computer "desktop" is an approximation of clerking and filing cabinets; it immediately skews the valency of the computer screen away from concepts of leisure or play and towards bureaucratic duty.

Steven Poole4 Nov

PlayStation 2 delay hits Eidos

Eidos, the computer games maker behind the Tomb Raider series, suffered another blow yesterday when Sony admitted to a shortfall of its long-awaited PlayStation 2.

David Teather, media business correspondent29 Sept

Late entrant

Nintendo yesterday became the last of Japan's big game machine makers to enter the competitive market for next-generation consoles by revealing it would start selling Gamecube in Japan next July.

Yuka Obayashi25 Aug

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Allan Borrell praises Steven Poole's unique contribution to the annals of video games, Trigger Happy

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Healthy living

Video games will make your kids violent and more likely to fail at school, according to new research. Nothing could be further from the truth, says games junkie Steven Poole.

Steven Poole26 Apr

Pester power

The global launch next month of a new monster-like character for the Japanese Pokemon computer game will be one of the most hyped events of this new century. And, perhaps more significantly (or worryingly - for parents at least), it will offer another opportunity to witness a growing phenomenon: pester power.

Andrew Smith26 Mar

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