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Gamers all over the world play the games created by Ares Dragonis in his home in the central Greek city of Larissa. The 34-year-old was an avid gamer himself as a boy and wondered who designed the graphics and characters of the games he played himself back then, while he also had a talent for drawing.

An exploration of the social consequences of engaging in gaming activities, focusing on community dynamics, personal identity, and challenges faced by gamers.

Social Consequences of Engagement in Gaming Activities

Overall, video games have become the most lucrative media segment concerning revenue over the last few years

China has granted more than 100 new video game licences in January, regulators said Friday, the highest number of monthly approvals since Beijing lifted a freeze imposed during a sweeping state crackdown on the sector.

The world's second largest economy is also one of its biggest markets for video games, worth some $42.2 billion, according to official figures.

1. Online Gaming

Only 16 percent of self-identified gamers who didn’t play any of the proto-metaverse titles

Turkish developers celebrated success on May 15 after Repair Master 3D was ranked first on a list of top-playing video game apps in the U.S.

Quok Games, a team of Middle East Technical Universities' (METU) Technopolis Animation Technologies, and Game Development Center began developing the game in 2018.

The number of gamers in China has exceeded 600 million, and according to experts, the new innovations will become the engine of the continuous development of the gaming industry.

Real gaming sales in China in 2019 reached 233 billion yuan (about $ 33.4 billion), up 8.7% year-on-year, according to a report on 2019 Chinese gaming industry.

A Croatian open-world survival video game, called SCUM, has already sold sold about 660,000 copies only days after it was released on August 29.

The game was created as a result of cooperation between two Croatian development teams, "Gamepires" and "Croteam". "About 20 people worked on the project," Josip Barisic, "Gamepires" community manager told BIRN.

The rise of eSports is a global phenomenon with tournaments attracting millions of viewers and pro-players becoming so famous that the mainstream media such as BBC starting to notice. A group of girls found that there was just one thing missing from eSports – a powerful and inspirational female presence in professional gaming.