Amy's i: NET NEWS.Byline: AMY A`my´ n. 1. A friend. VICKERS TITLES such as Grand Theft Auto 3, Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers and Fifa 2003 helped ensure a bumper year for the video games industry in 2002, say the Entertainment And Leisure Software Publishing Association. UK sales of hardware and software hit pounds 2.07billion in 2002, eight per cent up on 2001, while console software sales rose 19 per cent, driven by the Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo GameCube consoles. Meanwhile, the GTA GTA Grand Theft Auto (legal) GTA Grand Theft Auto (video game) GTA Greater Toronto Area (Canada) GTA Graduate Teaching Assistant design team, responsible for Vice City, pictured, is up for a gong in the London Design Museum's Designer Of the Year The £25,000 prize in the Design Museum's Designer of the Year award is awarded annually to the designer – or design team – living and working in the UK, or to any designer who was born in the UK but is now based in another country, that has made the biggest contribution Award. Edinburgh-based Rockstar Games is one of the tech-types nominated, as are the creators of Apple's iMac and iBook computers. |
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