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  2. Video game industry - Wikipedia

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    Evidence of the increasing player willingness to play video games across a variety of media and different platforms can be seen in the rise of casual gaming on smartphones, tablets, and social networking sites as 92% of all smartphone and tablet owners play games at least once a week, 45% play daily, and industry estimates predict that, by 2016 ...

  3. Video game monetization - Wikipedia

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    Recently, many video game publishers have adopted the games as a service model where a game continues to generate revenue after its release. As a result, a game tends to get extended support and more contents post-launch so that it can be monetized via other methods in addition to retails and digital downloads, allowing the consumers to make ...

  4. List of largest video game companies by revenue - Wikipedia

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    This is a listing of largest video game publishers and developers ranked by reported revenue over $100 million. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming. [1] [2] Out of the 59 largest video game companies, 14 are located in the United States, 11 in Japan, and 7 in South ...

  5. 20 Biggest Gaming Companies in the World - AOL

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    17. NEXON Co., Ltd. (NEXOF) 2021 annual revenue: $2.54 billion. NEXON Co., Ltd. (NEXOF) is a world-leading gaming company involved in the production and development of services for PC and mobile ...

  6. Games as a service - Wikipedia

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    In the video game industry, games as a service (GaaS) (also referred to as a live service game) represents providing video games or game content on a continuing revenue model, similar to software as a service. Games as a service are ways to monetize video games either after their initial sale, or to support a free-to-play model. Games released ...

  7. List of best-selling video game franchises - Wikipedia

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    Spyro is a series of platform video games which feature the protagonist Spyro, a dragon. Originally owned by Universal Pictures and developed by Insomniac Games, the franchise has changed hands and developers numerous times before being acquired by Activision in 2008. The series spawned the toys-to-life spin-off, Skylanders. Mass Effect

  8. Games industry ‘poised for upswing’ after stinging declines ...

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    The video game industry is on the cusp of a turnaround after a tumultuous few years that saw sales come back down to earth from the lofty heights they reached during the early days of the pandemic.

  9. Video game - Wikipedia

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    A video game, [a] sometimes further qualified as a computer game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld ...