Decades ago, all the talk in the world of games centred on beating Hollywood at its own game – but what we got, instead, demonstrated how difficult that was.
Laptops and desktop computers have to do a lot of work nowadays – doubling as stereos, TVs and games centres – but with so many of today's small computers packing equally small speakers, getting a good replacement pair can bring your films and music to life.
Set in a dystopian post-America now known as Panem, where an elite preside over a starving, benighted working class, The Hunger Games centres around a brutal televised tournament where randomly selected teens, referred to as "tributes", are whisked away to battle to the death for the enjoyment of their oppressors.
The decision to make the central character a woman was part of Hollis' belief that there "should be more games centred on women".
Updated at 6.37pm BST 6.28pm BST "We used Game Centre to create time-shifted multiplayer - that's my race from yesterday".
A large game centre crammed with young people; wild electronic sounds; a group of college students spilling out from a bar; teenage girls with brilliant bleached hair, healthy legs thrusting out from micro mini-skirts; dark-suited men racing across diagonal crossings for the last trains to the suburbs".
Kill Zombies at Melbourne's Virtual Reality Game Centre.
Over the weekend, the world's first virtual reality game centre, Zero Latency, opened in Melbourne, Australia.
Over the weekend, the world's first virtual reality game centre, Zero Latency, opened in Melbourne.
