thestatesman.net Mr Michel Cassius, director of Microsoft’s Xbox games platform in Europe, said “first person shooter” games — an action video game where anything that moves is a target — have emerged from nowhere to command about 15 per cent of the computer games market. He said: “Not only did games like Doom and Quake form a genre, but their creators did it in a very special way by marketing the games virally: they released demo versions which were e-mailed around among gamers, creating a lot of interest.
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