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22.03.2023 - 21:05 [ DFCint.com ]

Global Video Game Consumer Population Passes 3 Billion

(August 14, 2020)

DFC Intelligence just released its latest global Video Game Consumer Segmentation. This ongoing project breaks out the number of game consumers by country, region, and platform. As of mid 2020, it is estimated that the number of global game consumers is approaching 3.1 billion.

Of course, 3 billion is a massive number, however it only represents about 40% of the world population. Furthermore, by far the fastest growing segment is users that only access devices on smartphones. This accounts for nearly half of all users.

22.03.2023 - 20:51 [ theVerge.com ]

Amid layoffs and lost games, Amazon Luna comes to Canada, Germany, and the UK

Remember: Google Stadia is dead as a doornail, and Amazon Luna, the company’s rival cloud gaming service, wasn’t doing much better.

12.11.2018 - 14:37 [ theconversation.com ]

How the US military is using ‘violent, chaotic, beautiful’ video games to train soldiers

(7.3.2017) As part of a study, we interviewed 15 current and former members of the U.S. military who were between 24 and 35 years old to understand the role violent first-person shooter games played in their recruitment and training.

The majority of interviewees told us it was important to stay in the mindset of a soldier even when not on duty. To them, first-person shooters were the perfect vehicle for doing this.

12.11.2018 - 14:24 [ NBC News ]

Pentagon and CIA enlist video games

(10.3.2003) With “Full Spectrum Warrior,” currently in testing at Fort Benning, Ga., squad leaders learn how to command nine soldiers in complex, confusing urban warfare scenarios. The game isn’t not about sprinting, “Rambo”-like, through alleys with guns blazing.

“It’s not really about shooting at things,” Macedonia said. “Learning how to shoot your weapon is easy. The challenging thing is leading.”

The game the Institute for Creative Technologies has been working on with the CIA for about a year — at a cost of several million dollars — will let agency analysts assume the role of terror cell leaders, cell members and operatives.

“Our analysts would be accustomed to looking at the world from the perspective of the terrorists we are chasing, and learn to expect the unexpected,” CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said.

12.11.2018 - 14:15 [ Giga.de ]

Gut sein in Red Dead Redemption 2 heißt trotzdem, böse zu sein

Es ist ein Theaterstück über den Tod des Westernhelden, gespielt von Figuren, die um ihr eigenes Schicksal nicht wissen. Rockstar schafft es damit, eine sehr reale Geschichte zu erzählen: Ein Leben zu leben, das nicht den eigenen Vorstellungen entspricht. Bis einem kurz vor dem Tod klar wird – ich war nie das, was ich sein wollte.