American consumers spent more this past quarter on video games than they ever have before, to the tune of $10.9 billion — up 9 percent from the year before, according to industry analyst NPD Group ( via Bloomberg ). The period covers only January to March, meaning spending in the current quarter ending June 30th might end up being just as high, if not higher.
Obviously, the main event in the back third of this quarter was the coronavirus pandemic, which reached American shores at the end of January and has kept the public indoors since mid-March. According to NPD , game sales and in-game microtransactions made up $9.6 billion of that $10.9 billion figure.
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Converse College adds video games to athletics - Sports - GoUpstate - Spartanburg, SC
Here’s a college sport that will definitely be played regardless of what happens with a virus.
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Converse College announced earlier this week that it will begin an esports athletics program, a co-ed video game team to compete against other colleges beginning in 2021. Video game competitions have experienced a huge boost of popularity, especially during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m just really excited about what this could mean for our institution,” Converse athletics director Jenn Bell said. “President (Krista) Newkirk was the one who came to me and asked what I thought about this. We did the research, looked into it and felt like it would be a great fit for Converse. We already have some students on campus who are interested. We also thought it was another avenue of revenue.
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Better Esports Gaming allows users to bet on video games
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. –– Sports betters across the country have been longing for an outlet ever since traditional sports stopped. However, this whole time they could have been betting on Esports.
How Covid-19 Might Create an Onerous Economy Inside Video Games - CTech
FinCEN, among its many areas of oversight, has developed anti-money laundering (AML) regulation vis-à-vis the use of CVCs. A CVC, according to these regulations, acts as a substitute for real currency, or has an equivalent value in real currency, like Bitcoin. If Nintendo allows or facilitates bells to be traded for the equivalent of real currency, bells could potentially become a CVC and fall under the onerous regulatory system of FinCEN.
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Greenbaum is a director at the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, at Israeli academic institute IDC Herzliya.
Fantasy Novels That Would Make Great Video Game Settings
Movies adaptations of books tend to be seen as inferior to their source material, but video games adaptations of fantasy book series like T he Witcher or Metro 2033 have a better record staying true to the original work's detail and characterization. The following four stories of science-fiction and fantasy in particular would make for excellent video games, thanks to world-building, magic systems, and storylines which could easily be translated into rewarding gameplay.
Chiefs teammates rip DT Chris Jones for being bad at video games
Kansas City Chiefs DT Chris Jones is getting into video games a little more seriously this offseason. He shared his PSN ID on Twitter this week, announcing that all PS4 players should add him. He also created a Twitch.tv account, and in a quick 16-second video, let fans know what games he’ll be playing.
“Make sure you guys follow me,” Jones said in the video . “There’s about to be a lot of ‘Call of Duty’, a lot of ‘Madden NFL 20′, a lot of 2K, a lot of action and adventure games.”
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