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 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. ...
services, the Video Games market is only at the beginning of this development. New offers like Ubisoft’s Uplay+ gaming flat rate or technical innovations like Google Stadia’s game streaming platform might attract even more casual gamers and revolutionize the way consumers play video games in ...
Tencentcomes second among the world’s biggest video game companies. The Chinese internet conglomerate is primarily a social media company but has also been involved in the video game industry for quite some time now. Tencent primarily focuses on online and mobile smartphone games, such as the co...
For players new to the game, this was a meticulously crafted survival horror experience that felt completely in step with the genre in 2019, while veterans got to enjoy a lovingly crafted piece of nostalgia that felt like the game they remembered from 1998. It trod a brilliant tightrope, ...
They need to be based on a specific game – not just set in a fictional game world like Free Guy or Ready Player One – and do justice to their subject matter. Whatever you like to play, there will be a movie on this list that is worth putting down the controller for and picking ...
10 video game anniversaries worth celebrating in 2025 Gaming January 6 Grand Theft Auto 6 is just the tip of the iceberg for video games in 2025 Gaming January 4 More Action Games Giovanni Colantonio Senior Gaming Editor instagram linkedin ...
I touched on this in theIntro to Emulationarticle. The accuracy of an emulator's processing has different grades of quality. The highest grade is “cycle accurate”; it's a term you'll often see come up on the subject of video game emulation. In short, at the cost of being heavy on...
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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...