2006 will see rAge in its fourth year of showcasing cutting-edge computer and video games, technology, gadgets and products. With 60% more floor space and the biggest ever gaming LAN in South Africa (1200 gamers), the expo is expected to be bigger, better and louder than ever before.
 
rAge will highlight the latest in games and computer technology, and those who attend the expo range from IT professionals, to gamers, to gadget hunters, to families just looking for a fun day out. Activities taking place during the weekend include live local performances, loads of prizes and giveaways, celebrity appearances, PC gaming competitions, sneak peeks at some of the hottest gaming titles to be released in the upcoming months, a sneak peek from Games Emporium at Magic The Gatherings new release called Time Spiral, and the SA launch of Microsofts Xbox 360.

Gaming is one of the fastest growing sectors of the entertainment industry after only thirty years in existence, global revenue for video games (PC, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy etc.) is already around $30bn a year, and is expected to reach more than $35bn by 2007. When Halo 2 (an Xbox console title) was released on the same day as the Spiderman 2 movie in the US, it outsold the movie release!

In fact, the film industry, only has a global revenue 50% larger (at $ 000) than that of the video game industry. With figures like this to back them up, predictions that by 2008 video games will be the second most popular form of entertainment, having overtaken music, do not seem all that far-fetched.