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The video game industry is the tertiary and quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the development, marketing, distribution, monetization and consumer feedback of video games. The industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide. [1] The video game industry has grown from niche to ...
Players competing in a League of Legends tournament. Esports ( / ˈiːspɔːrts / ⓘ ), short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. [ 1 ] Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, played individually or as teams. [ 2 ]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It offers video game news, coverage of industry events, interviews with gaming figures, editorial content and product reviews.
Electronic Arts Inc. ( EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by former Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the designers and programmers responsible for its games as "software artists".
The modern video game industry grew out of the concurrent development of the first arcade video game and the first home video game console in the early 1970s in the United States. The arcade video game industry grew out of the pre-existing arcade game industry, which was previously dominated by electro-mechanical games (EM games).
The American video game industry is the largest video game industry in the world. According to a 2020 study released by the Entertainment Software Association, the yearly economic output of the American video game industry in 2019 was $90.3 billion, supporting over 429,000 American jobs. With an average yearly salary of about $121,000, the ...
This is a listing of largest video game publishers and developers ranked by reported revenue. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming. [ 1][ 2] Among the 50 largest video game companies, thirteen are based in the United States, ten in Japan, six each in South Korea and ...
E3 (short for Electronic Entertainment Expo) [ a] was an annual trade event for the video game industry organized and presented by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). [ 2] It was held principally in Los Angeles from 1995 to 2019, [ b] with its final iteration held virtually in 2021. The event hosted developers, publishers, hardware ...