On a win and a player: Britain’s gaming prowess

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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  Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  Europe is phenomenally good at, you might say ruthless with, its sin taxes.

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  Booze, tobacco, petrol, the sky's the limit.

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  The public health and public purse arguments for them are straightforward,

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  but there is some inequality in their effects.

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  And the electric vehicle revolution has come for Bangladesh's rickshaws.

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  They might now be the world's biggest informal EV fleet.

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  Good news for drivers' incomes and for riders' convenience.

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  But everybody, look out.

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  These things are dangerously fast.

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  First up, though.

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  In 1997,

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  a small team of software developers in the Scottish city of Dundee were about to release a title which would change the way the non-gaming public would view video games.

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  Georgia Banjo is a Britain correspondent for The Economist.

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  It would go on to launch one of the best-selling series in games.

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  At the time, though, no one expected it would be a hit.

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  The game was a radical departure in tone for the studio.

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