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...Phone puzzle games, time travelling save-the-world adventures, basketball simulators, dystopian open world games, elegant narrative art pieces, many more: gaming offers a dizzying multiplicity of formats...
...Fabien Allègre, chief brand officer, said the club wanted to extend its reach beyond football fans in the capital, in an approach that pitches “Paris” as a brand that will even appeal to gamers in China...
...A March 2022 tweet from basketball superstar Steph Curry summed it up well: “Do I look like a crypto expert?! Thankfully @FTX_Official got me”....
...pro-gamers staring iento the screen....
...Running in parallel with these shifts is the soaring growth of esports as a spectator activity for younger Japanese who, in lockdown, became ardent fans of professional gamers and esports tournaments....
...It boasts 150mn loyal gamers and generates well over $1bn a year for EA and around $150mn for the Zurich-headquartered football body....
...The speculative nature of an NFT’s value — collectibles have traded for millions on secondary markets — make some digital natives, like gamers, suspicious....
...“Are gamers going to be OK with it if only eight of the top 20 quarterbacks are featured in the game? It’s not going to be a great product,” adds Mottram....
...The National Basketball Association, the North American league, hosted its own competition for real players. Investment is also flooding into esports teams and leagues from wealthy former athletes....
...Esports challenge traditional sports for airtime By nature, video gamers are competitive....
...Instead of an expensive and lengthy process of testing, polishing and refining a title, in the hopes that gamers will spend years playing, hyper-casual publishers work by volume, often pushing out a new...
...Industry analyst Newzoo estimates there are more than 2.5bn gamers globally....
...The decision by the general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team to retract support for Hong Kong protesters was evidence of that....
...This week alone Activision Blizzard, the video games company, banned a gamer for shouting a slogan in support of the Hong Kong protests....
...Further protests seem likely at the BlizzCon convention for gamers at the end of the month....
...The p’futhh of a basketball arcing dead centre into the net....
...He has been nicknamed the “Michael Jordan of esports”, after the retired US basketball player....
...But it may not be long, say analysts, before the gamers handpicked to represent traditional sports teams end up competing in esports that have nothing to do with football or basketball or ice hockey....
...The company is using AI to target advertising, for example at basketball fans....
...Footage of basketball game implies more third-party support than expected,” Michael Pachter, games analyst at Wedbush Securities, said on Twitter....
...“Competitive gaming is very popular with a broad section of gamers, but most don't enter tournaments,” he said....
...The ultimate aim is for esports to be as big as basketball or football. In 2015, the global audience for esports was 188m viewers, according to Superdata, a market research company....
...Though he admits to being a “geeky person” and an introvert, at school he played basketball and in a jazz band, as well as learning about computers....
...Starting a sports league is famously difficult, as fans of SlamBall (basketball played on trampolines) can attest....
...But gamers are already being afforded some of the same perks as more traditional sportspeople....
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