We do not expect the trend to end soon.The health crisis has created stubborn habits among consumers. As we have already seen, the mobile application market was booming last year. So, according to data from App Annie, users spent $143 billion on apps in 2020.Of this total, a large majority comes from the mobile gaming market, which is doing particularly … [Read more...] about Why the mobile gaming boom is on track to last
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Playing cooperative online games would make children more selfless
Games like Fortnite could have unexpected virtues.And so far away, far from making people violent, video games made us on the contrary more altruistic? This is the starting point of a study recently published in the scientific journal Computers in Human Behavior .To verify this concretely, researchers conducted a survey of 845 students from … [Read more...] about Playing cooperative online games would make children more selfless
Here are the new Xbox Series X covers
Microsoft will soon be offering a third version of the Xbox Series X covers… And this time, it's very classy!Between Microsoft and the Xbox Series X covers… It's a long river that is not really quiet. Remember, in July 2020 we discovered (with a lot of disappointment) the next-gen covers. On the PlayStation side, there was just a shy change in colors. On the Microsoft … [Read more...] about Here are the new Xbox Series X covers
Mega Man the Wily Wars: when Capcom’s blue robot was invited to SEGA
At the end of 1994, Capcom made a small infidelity to Nintendo with its Mega Man saga by offering an exclusive episode to the Mega Drive of SEGA. Heresy?In 1994, in view of the success of the SEGA Mega Drive (especially in the United States), Capcom granted SEGA players a new episode of Mega Man. A shock for Nintendo players, as the little blue robot seemed doomed to … [Read more...] about Mega Man the Wily Wars: when Capcom’s blue robot was invited to SEGA
Paralyzed man challenges Pager, Neuralink’s monkey to Pong game
This would be the first interspecies mental competition. Thanks to the brain-machine interfaces, the two opponents could face each other in the game of Pong. The live could be broadcast on Twitch.Nathan Copeland was injured in a car accident several years ago. Since then, he can no longer walk or move his fingers. They equip him with a brain-machine interface, on which he … [Read more...] about Paralyzed man challenges Pager, Neuralink’s monkey to Pong game
The aggressive strategy of Epic Games, publisher of the game “Fortnite”, against the distributor Steam revealed in documents
Since the global success of video games, the American publisher has stepped up assaults against the main video game distributors.The big trials in Silicon Valley are often the occasion to see very interesting financial documents emerge, supposed to remain confidential, but published as exhibits for the needs of the hearing. This happened in the case between, since … [Read more...] about The aggressive strategy of Epic Games, publisher of the game “Fortnite”, against the distributor Steam revealed in documents
Influence Marketing and Gaming: what opportunities for my business
In recent years, gaming (playing video games) has become trendy. For a very long time reserved for a very small community of individuals, the number of players has greatly expanded. Today, more than 64% of the population of the United States plays a video game.Youtube, Twitch, Twitter, Reddit, all these social networks bring together communities of several million … [Read more...] about Influence Marketing and Gaming: what opportunities for my business
Video games, sociology of mass leisure
Video games are a massive social fact, both in terms of the size of their turnover and that of its practices. This masculinist universe is characterized by a tension between the stranglehold of the merchant industries and the autonomy of its various subcultures.Video games are the youngest of the cultural industries. They have become, with the massification of their … [Read more...] about Video games, sociology of mass leisure
Computer games: Gaming makes you productive and creative
Computer games are controversial. Associations of light-shy characters who play first-person shooters day in and day out are still the most harmless. But the reputation is not justified. It is well established that computer games can have positive effects. And that is entirely right independent Lyon age; Whether for teenagers, professionals or seniors - in healthy doses, it … [Read more...] about Computer games: Gaming makes you productive and creative
You are no longer silent
Harassed, groped, raped: Hundreds of women report sexual assaults in the games scene. Is this the beginning of your MeToo movement? It would be overdue.Too often reports of sexual harassment in the video game industry remain in your own four walls. Discrimination, sexual harassment, physical assault, and even rape: such experiences have so far been concealed mainly in … [Read more...] about You are no longer silent
