Influences In The Gaming Industry

ESRB https://www.esrb.org The ESRB are an American based company that is used to rate and assigns ages to video game content. They’re a self-regulatory organisation which means they do not have outside influences on how they rate games. They’re also a non-profit which means they do not have an aim of making money instead they… Read more

Downloadable Content https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-dlc-in-gaming-how-does-it-work-4707377 DLC was first normalised by the company CaveDog for their game Total Annihilation in 1997 because the company started releasing new content every month. it was only later that the console manufacturers Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Sega at the time started to support DLC. DLC has caused developers and published to have… Read more

Platforms https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/15/15807138/sony-playstation-cross-network-play-xbox-block-response The article talks about about Sony’s influence on cross platform play and their stance on cross platform game play with Microsoft and Nintendo. Sony claims that they don’t want to have cross platform play because they don’t have control over external influences that children would see, making it unfriendly to children. But then… Read more

Esports/Streaming https://www.toptal.com/finance/market-research-analysts/esports by Josh Chapman Esports are a booming industry as the view numbers for each of these games continue to rise, with 43 million people watching the Worlds finale of League of legends back in 2016, this is 12 million more viewers than the NBA finals in the same year. Esports and streaming transform… Read more