High-tech game market is a real-life battlefield

The game Counter-Strike has proven an Internet cafe juggernaut, but it is not the whole story in computer gaming, as role playing and strategy games still command much of the market

By Lin Chieh-yu / STAFF REPORTER

For Taiwan's game distributors, design houses and Internet cafes, the games that make up their livelihood mirror the cut-throat intensity of their battle to keep abreast of Western and emerging regional competitors. If they cannot keep ahead, then it may be game over.

-- Translated by Ian Bartholomew