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  1. 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. The video game industry has grown from niche to mainstream.

  2. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...

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    This book attempts to capture the still short, yet deep history of video games in a form accessible to the average reader. For the purpose of completeness, this book also includes computer game and other automatic or electronic game history.

    Timeline - Offers a year-by-year timeline of video game history and related developments.
    Platform History - Contains history related to specific platforms.
    Specialized topics - Covers gaming history in specific topics that tend to be more obscure or interdisciplinary.
    Gaming Culture - Covers the history of cultures in gaming, and how they change over time.

    Gamers

    Gamers can learn a great deal about their favorite series and developers from this book. There are a number of surprising and interesting stories in gaming history, from humble beginnings to surprising twists. Furthermore, gamers may also learn about interesting games and hidden gems that they might have missed out on.

    Educators

    While this book may prove useful for a gaming history course, it has been designed to be of potential use in education beyond this field. This book seeks to weave a deep chronology of gaming history alongside interdisciplinary subjects when appropriate. As a result, this book may serve as a useful supplement in courses beyond gaming history. Here are some examples: 1. There are many pictures included in the game console section. This allows readers to fully grasp the visual designs popular at...

    Researchers

    This book seeks to offer interesting leads on video game history, which may be of interest to scholars of gaming related subjects, as well as more broad fields which intersect with this subject like popular culture studies, business management, and other topics. Whenever possible this book cites the best available sources for a fact and tends to exclude anything non-obvious if it can not be sourced, or at least mark dubious "common knowledge" as questionable. However when it comes to more obs...

  3. Mar 11, 2023 · For the first time, the Hugo Awards included video games as finalists in 2021. [81] The International Olympic Committee hosted their first esports event, the Olympic Virtual Series, beginning on May 13th, 2021. [82] [83] The opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games on July 23rd, 2021 included music derived from a number of video games.

  4. 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 China , four each in France and Sweden , and one each in Israel , Poland , Ireland , Canada , United Kingdom , Singapore , and Italy , respectively.

  5. Business. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made. ( ISBN 978-0062651235) by Jason Schreier. Business & Legal Primer for Game Development. ( ISBN 1-58450-492-7) by Brian Green and S. Gregory Boyd. Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business.

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