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...Videogames have reached their fourth decade, and the Game On exhibition traces their development from the simple tennis contest Pong to cinematic role-playing games like Final Fantasy. But the show is not just a timeline of game genres and chip development (plus a chance to play Tomb Raider), it also tries to make you think. "Game On" - which runs at London's Barbican Centre throughout the summer and in mid-September moves to Edinburgh, then on to continental Europe, the U.S. and Japan - is divided into sections: games families, making and marketing, games culture, sound, cinema, future technology. There...
...open an action movie, get recognized by 99% of the world's teenage boys and never complain. Or even call. Creative Artists Agency, home to clients like Gwyneth Paltrow and Tom Cruise, found such a client last week in robust LARA CROFT, the fictional heroine of the Tomb Raider video-game series, played by Angelina Jolie in last summer's blockbuster film Lara Croft Tomb Raider. An explorer with formidable combat skills and a chest you could rest a Ming vase on, Croft could make money for her handlers through consumer-product tie-ins, publishing deals and television. Best...
...video-game characters are, literally, dumb: they have no animating intelligence except what the player provides, and so--as in last year's Tomb Raider--their superpowers don't help in lifting heavy movie narratives. Instead, our decades-old comic heroes continue to move through the pop-culture cosmos--Ang Lee's The Hulk comes out next year--like the constellations, the movie shows of old in which people once inscribed the stories of their own superheroes. Then, as now, the lights would go dark, and people would gather round for stories they never got tired...
...game on a good note before Colgate went on a five-goal run. Junior attacker Matt Primm scored the Crimson’s first goal at 5:47 in the first quarter. Primm rolled the crease, recovered from a defender’s check and sent a shot past Raider goalkeeper Chris Hettler...
...final period of regulation opened with a Raider possession, but the Crimson recaptured the ball and scored again when Primm sent a pass from behind goal to McBride, who quick-sticked the ball past Hettler, bringing the score...