<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9072f246-ce17-4aee-ade1-7737d0a5a1a2/685120BB-3805-4CCC-8D0E-205C1A3AEC78/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/videogame-developers-salaries-tech-intel-cx_mji_0415salaries.html?partner=technology_newsletter" href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/videogame-developers-salaries-tech-intel-cx_mji_0415salaries.html?partner=technology_newsletter" style="font-size: 11px;">www.forbes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/videogame-developers-salaries-tech-intel-cx_mji_0415salaries.html?partner=technology_newsletter"><P>Why program productivity software when you could be making games? That's the sort of thinking that's driving professionals to get into the games industry. And $18.8 billion in U.S. sales in 2007, as reported by NPD Group, doesn't hurt either. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/videogame-developers-salaries-tech-intel-cx_mji_0415salaries.html?partner=technology_newsletter"><P>For programmers, those sales translate into jobs. Good ones. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/videogame-developers-salaries-tech-intel-cx_mji_0415salaries.html?partner=technology_newsletter"><P>"This is a real growth industry," says Darryl Horne, director of development operations at BioWare. He joined up with the Edmonton, Alberta-based game developer a little over a year ago after a stint as a project manager at personal-finance software maker <B>Intuit</B> (nasdaq: <A class="maintkrlink" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=INTU">INTU</A> - <A href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=INTU"> news </A> - <A href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=INTU"> people </A>). "It's a lot more interesting doing project review when you're watching critters move about, swords fly and blood splatter than it is when you stare at spreadsheets."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/videogame-developers-salaries-tech-intel-cx_mji_0415salaries.html?partner=technology_newsletter"><P>Besides, who can say no to walking into a store, pointing at a game box and saying, "I worked on that"? </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/685120BB-3805-4CCC-8D0E-205C1A3AEC78/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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