The global video game industry is a billion-dollar business and has been for many years. In 2024, the revenue from the worldwide gaming market was estimated at almost 455 billion U.S. dollars, with the mobile gaming market generating an estimated 98.7 billion U.S. dollars of the total. ...
We visualize the video game industry’s inflation-adjusted revenues every year, from its humble beginnings in 1970 to the media juggernaut it is now, worth more than $180 billion of revenue in 2022. All data presented in the chart and in this article was provided by UK-based market intellig...
We will not try to explain why that is the case, but we note that the industry’s implementation of a rating system following US Congressional hearings about video game violence 1993 may have forestalled similar controversies elsewhere as similar ratings systems were applied outside the US. For...
The worldwide video game market is experiencing a surge in popularity, with countries like Japan leading the way in innovative game development. Key regions:France,South Korea,Asia,Japan,Europe in-scope out-of-scope Market Region Region comparison ...
In total, the global market for video games is now worth hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars. The following ranking lists the world’s ten biggest video game companies by the most recently achieved gaming revenue. It is those biggest video game companies that dominate this rapidly growing fo...
If you ask different people, you’ll probably come up with several different things that make a game worth playing. What makes a game really stand out as worth playing depends on what your priorities are as a gamer. Do you love the storyline more than anything else? Does a game have to...
industry, currently worth around $179.7 billion, with 3.1 billion players; an industry that rivals the casino industry. One of the reasons for this is because of the number of platforms available for people to game on, such as mobile devices, laptops, computers, Game boys, Nintendo DS and ...
"Video game prices haven't changed very much in the past five years," said Osborn. "That's meant the cost of making games has gone up quite a lot while the market has softened, so even though the industry did really well last year, it wasn't enough." ...
One of the biggest challenges in the near future will be finding strategies to promote positive aging, that is, aging with a high quality of life with respect to both mental and physical health. Video games appear to be one of the most appealing interactive technologies for empowering older ad...
On January 4, 2024,the first round of video game layoffs (that we know of) happened at VR games developer Archiact. The company, known for itsDoom 3VR port, announced on social media that it had laid off an unspecified number of staff. ...