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    Why Video Games Succeed Where Hollywood Fails

    Fast-paced national/international news and issues program, from KCRW.

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    By Warren Olney • May 16, 2014 • 51m Listen

    Gaming has become a multi-billion dollar industry that's shaping the cultural tastes of America, not just for kids but for more and more grown-ups, too. Is it changing human behavior? Will it have an impact on politics? Also, DC dings GM for a record $35 million, and political history in India — as a figure shunned by the US will become Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy.

    Banner image: Children playing video games inside a video game truck, 2012. Photo: Gamesingear

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