The computer games industry is part of the entertainment economic sector. It generates billions in revenue annually in countries like the UK. Major game companies include Activision, Rockstar, Vivendi, and Take-Two Interactive, which employ thousands of people globally and produce hugely popular franchises like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty. The gaming industry also relates to other media industries through the use of music licenses in games and the adaptation of films into video game properties.

1. Computer games
Media sector:
Description
Computer games industry is part of the economic sector of entertainment. Computer
games uses human interactions to make the computer circuitry work. Computer
games can be used using either a joystick or keypad. The interactions we have with the
device makes the user interface change the visual feedback we get from the device.
Computer games can be linked with advertising and marketing because who would
know when a new game comes out.

2. Size, shape structure
• The UK is Europe's largest video game market in the world. The UK games
market generated 5.2 billion revenues in the UK and the number of
gamers at these revenues is at 33 billion. It has employed a huge sum of
people, quite specifically 7,000 people in the uk.

3. Companies within the sector
• Activision is one of Americas largest game companies. There CEO is Eric hirshberg,
Activision were founded on October 1, 1979 and was the worlds first independent
developer and distributor of video games. Activision are subsidiary with Activision
Blizzard. They’re one of the biggest video game publishers in the world. Activision
are mostly known for there Tony hawk Pro skater series
• Rockstar is a huge company. They have made some extraordinary games such as
Bully Scholarship, Red dead redemption, Max Payne and of course Grand theft
auto. They were founded in 1998, the owner of Rockstar is Take-Two Interactive.
They’re a multinational video game developer and publisher team based in New
York city. Take-Two Interactive belong to famous publishers named BMG
interactive.

4. Companies owned
• Vivendi is a French multinational mass media company with a headquaters based
in Paris, France. The company has doings in Music, Film, Telecommunication,
Publishing, Television, The internet and video games. They were founded at
December 14, 1853. But their name Vivendi became the name in 1998.
• Take-Two Interactive. They were founded in 1933 by Ryan Brant. They are a
American publisher, developer and distributor of video games. Take-Two owns 2k
games and GTA. They are based in New York with international headquarters in
wisdor, United kingdom.

5. The relationship between game companies and other
media sectors.
• In the computer games industry there are quite a few companies that are linked with
Musicians or bands such as Avenged Sevenfold being in the call of duty series, In the GTA
series there is a wide range of bands and singers that are used in the game such
as, Blondie, Stevie wonder, Def leopard, The trammps, Fear, Black Flag ETC. Other games
such as the Tony Hawk Skateboarding series, they include many songs from bands such as
Green Day, Slayer, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The
Offspring, Goldfinger, Motorhead, AFI, ACDC. ETC

6. How does the Gaming industry relate to other industries?
The gaming industry can relate to the photography and photo imaging Media sector. This is because when
game designers are designing graphics for a game, the photorealistic graphics is commonly used now a
days, so the more High quality pictures there are the better the graphics can become.
The gaming industry can also be linked with the film industry because of Film adapting into a video
game, For example, The ghost buster video game is a game based on the Movie.