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  Watch the YouTube video outlining the history of the videogames industry from the 1970s to the 2010s. Now answer the following questions: 1) What were the first videogames like? They were designed for rapid code breaking and calculating ballistic trajectories.  2) How have videogames changed over time? As technology has evolved, the video games of greater complexity have become possible to create. Games have been generated with coins and have added colour since the 1980s. 3) What do the most successful games have in common? Answer this in as much detail as you can. Think about audience pleasures - what do people like about playing videogames? They all have some end goal to achieve, which keeps players motivated to keep playing until they win something and feel the excitement through the main goal they've achieved, which fits into the diversion audience pleasure as they have something exhilarating to look forward to while they play the video game. Also, most of the games in t...

  Blog tasks: The Times case study - Audience and Industries Audience 1) What are the main audience demographics for The Times newspaper? Add as much detail as you can. The Times target audience is older with over half the audience aged 55+. In terms of social class, they are overwhelmingly in the ABC1 social classes - 62% from social group AB.  This means Times readers are likely to be professionals, managers or company owners. They are likely to be in the succeeder   psychographic group. 2) What aspects of the front page of the Times CSP edition suggest that their readers are likely to be more educated and interested in hard news rather than entertainment? They have long paragraphs and a lot of writing, meaning it's for people who like to read and they use formal vocabulary such as "exodus" showing they target an educated audience. 3) Times readers are mostly over 55 years old. Why is this and how is this reflected  or  challenged by the design and news storie...