Speaking with
GamesIndustry.biz this week, USC Interactive Media & Games Professor Jim Huntley explains how the school s Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund established in partnership with Take-Two Interactive came about. It was during the racial justice protests that rocked the nation, and really the world, last year, Huntley recalls. I experienced and marched in some of those protests, and was really blown away by the amount of diversity I saw in the crowd. It kind of triggered me to really start buckling down and figure out, Is there something we can do in our neck of the woods with USC Games that can make a difference from a racial justice perspective?
Ed Smith, computer and video games pioneer, with his Imagination Machine in 1981
Jerry Lawson led the invention of cartridges, Ed Smith made a hybrid console/PC, and designer Muriel Tramis won Franceâs highest honour for bringing history into play. How many more names are forgotten?
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In the 1970s, in the fledgling days of the video games industry, an engineer named Gerald âJerryâ Lawson designed one of the earliest game consoles, the Channel F, and also led the team that invented the game cartridge, a defining innovation in how games were made and sold. His son, Andersen Lawson, recalls that he was often working on gaming projects in the garage of their family home in Santa Clara, California. âThere have been conversations recently about the struggles he might have had that were related to his colour,â he says. âWas it difficult [for him]? Yes, Iâm quite certain. But I never hear
Brexit cost my bicycle business £250,000 extra in just two months, and I can t see any positives
The extra costs of doing trade with Europe have already wiped out the entire 2020 profits of Frog Bikes in Pontypool
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Frog Bikes, the Pontypool-based company that has lost over £250,000 as a direct result of Brexit (Image: Richard Swingler)
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More than two-fifths of UK exporters saw their overseas sales decline over the first three months of the year, according to a new survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).
Overall, 41 per cent of businesses reported making fewer export sales compared to 38 per cent from October to December 2020 while the proportion of firms reporting higher exports dropped by two percentage points to 20 per cent.
The organisation also observed four in ten companies reported no rise in exports, and that export orders and advance bookings reveal no signs of improvement, implying that a recovery is some way off.
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