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The video game industry includes the development, marketing, distribution, monetization, and consumer feedback processes related to video game. The professions involved include game designers, software engineers, sound designers, testers, marketers, and customer support staff.
Video games have gradually gained increasing culturel relevance on many areas of contemporary society. These influences extend to the economy and the labor market, education, consumption patterns and daily habits, architecture and urban planning, and sectors such as healthcare, the automotive industry, cinema and television, fashion, and sports.
Video games now compete with movies, music, and television in terms of both popularity and revenue.
Many parts of modern personal computers were originally improved to meet the needs of video games. The industry has influenced the technological advancement of pc's through sound cards, graphics cards and 3D graphic accelerators, CPUs, and co-processors like PhysX.