<B>5.30am: </B>British retailers are sweeping the Microsoft Flight Simulator computer game off their shelves after worries emerged that the US terrorists could have honed their flying skills using the game. By <B>Julia Day</B>.
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Computer games publisher Rage announced yesterday that full-year pretax losses had more than doubled to £17m.
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<p>It gave the world Lara Croft, the digitised heroine of Tomb Raider who brought in more foreign earnings than the Spice Girls at their peak. But the computer games industry, the jewel in the crown of Britain's new media revolution, may never again be able to develop a product with similar global blockbuster appeal. </p>
<p>You've got to love LA. Any town with a pro shop called The Merchant of Tennis gets my vote. </p>
<p>Children who become addicted to computer games may actually be more intelligent than the average and go on to university and higher-ranking jobs, according to a Home Office research review published yesterday. </p>
<p>As night follows day, the hapless Christmas shopper will be met each year with a point blank shortage of the must-have consumable.</p>