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Purpose: The subject of this paper are the producers of electronic games listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Currently, the electronic games industry is developing very dynamically. It is characterized by large increases and volatility. The reason for this is the growing interest in games as well as the development of technology. Approach/Methodology/Design: The subject of the paper are the annual reports of these entities for 2016-2018. In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Polish legislator has extended the possibility of submitting approved reports for 2019 by 3 months. The audit was performed in the period 07-08 2020 and does not include financial statements for the financial year ending 2019. Due to the lack of generally available financial sector indicators for enterprises in the electronic games industry, the aim of the paper is to determine such indicators and to determine the market position and its changes in the surveyed enterprises in 2016-2018. The following research methods were used in the paper, analysis of the literature on the subject and financial statements, and methods of descriptive statistics. Findings: The sector analysis shows that in the Polish electronic games market in 2016-2018, the group of leaders included companies such as PlayWay, CD Projekt and 11-bit studios. On the other hand, companies that were mainly in the outsider group were, One More Level, The Farm 51 Group, 7Levels and Huckleberry Games. Therefore, there is no reason to reject the hypothesis that companies offering a wider range of products tend to dominate the electronic games sector. In the electronic entertainment industry, the standard is competition and product promotion even during production because promotional activities are essential for sales success. Practical Implications: Determining the indicators for this industry will allow a company to be compared in space, based on the actual size of other companies or average values in each sector as a reference base. Originality/Value: The results of the analysis and theoretical considerations contained in this article complement existing research in the field of sectoral analysis. ; peer-reviewed

This book is the first study to survey, over a ten-year period, innovations and the industrial formation process of online game business, and global strategies of major Korean online game companies. It focuses on the innovative factors which made the Korean online game industry grow tremendously and successfully to gain competitiveness in the global game industry. These include: the main factors stimulating online game business; virtual business created by online games as well as an examination of the role of the Korean government at the beginning and developmental period of the online gaming business. This book also contains authentic and accumulated research conducted over five years in the international domain of the online game industry. This research unveils diverse strategies of game companies and presents cognitive differences toward the online game business where various convergences will occur between the online game and other Internet businesses

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 A Fundamental Dilemma: Efficiency Versus Creativity -- 1.1 A Fundamental Dilemma: Efficiency Versus Creativity -- 1.2 Game Software as a Research Subject for Considering the Relationship Between Efficiency and Creativity -- 1.3 Objectives of the Study and Reasons for Selection of Cases -- 1.3.1 Reasons for Choosing Game Software as a Research Subject -- 1.3.2 Overview of the Game Software Business: The Emergence of the Console Game Software Business and its Industrial Structure -- 1.3.3 Product Characteristics of Game Software -- 1.3.4 Game Software Development Activities -- 1.3.5 Characteristics of Game Software Development Activities -- 1.4 Aims and Messages of This Book -- 1.5 Structure of This Book -- References -- 2 Literature Review: Innovation Patterns and Evolution of the Industry -- 2.1 Literature Review of the Innovation Research -- 2.1.1 Changes in Innovation Over Time -- 2.1.2 Existing Research on the Impact of Complementary goods -- 2.1.3 Problems Left by Existing Research on Innovation Patterns -- 2.2 Literature Review of the Game Studies -- 2.3 Positioning of This Book -- References -- 3 Analytical Framework and Research Design: Definition of Innovations, Types of Innovations and the Methods of Empirical Research -- 3.1 Definition of Innovation in Game Software -- 3.2 Categories of Innovation -- 3.2.1 Two Types of Innovation in Game Software -- 3.2.2 Measuring Innovation: Product Classification Axis and Operational Definition -- 3.3 Analytical Framework -- 3.3.1 The Analytical Framework of This Study -- 3.3.2 A Framework for Analyzing Innovation Patterns in the Game Software Industry -- 3.3.3 Foresight on Innovation in Game Software -- 3.4 Data to Be Used for Analysis -- 3.4.1 Unit of Analysis for This Study.

Everything you need to know about the business of games, apps and social media-a powerful tool for market research, strategic planning, competitive intelligence or employment searches. Includes trends analysis, software, design, statistics, markets, technologies, contacts, and profiles of more than 300 leading companies, containing addresses, phone numbers and executives

Growth in popularity of computer (video) games is a noticeable change in recent years. Electronic entertainment increasingly engages the wider society and reaches to new audiences by offering them satisfy of wide variety of needs and aspirations. As a mass media games not only provide entertainment, but they are also an important source of income, knowledge and social problems. Article aims to bring closer look on the common areas of games and comics. On the one hand designers and artists working on games are often inspired by comic books, as well as they create their licensed adaptations and separate "interactive issues". On the other hand more and more often we can see comics based on popular games. Study present the areas of agreement, cooperation or dependence like: technologies used to create games and comic books, use of comic books to comment events in the gaming industry and organization of exhibitions or events popularizing the works from both fields.

1. Introduction -- Part I: HISTORY -- 2. "The History of the Twentieth-Century Chinese Game Industry: The Practice of Domestic Games as Evidence" (Jian Deng, PhD, postdoc researcher, Peking University) -- 3. "From Game Addiction to Game Culture: The Panorama of Chinese Video Game Research" (Jing Sun, PhD, Director of Game Research Center at Perfect World) -- Part II: ECONOMICS, INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, AND POLICY -- 4. "Exploring Cultural Policy and Gaming Entrepreneurship in Shanghai: An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective" (Gejun Huang, PhD, assistant prof, Soochow University) -- 5. "Online Streaming and Digital Distribution Platforms: The Introduction of Western Games to Chinese Markets" (Mateusz Felczak, PhD, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities) -- 6. "Japanese Game Company Strategies for Entering China: Comparative Case Studies from 1989 to 2019" (Akinori Nakamura, PhD, professor, Ritsumeikan University) -- Part III: PLAYER STUDIES -- 7. "Competitive, Emotional, and Social: The In-Game Purchase Mechanism and Player Motivations in Onmyoji" (Shule Cao, PhD, associate professor,Tsinghua University, and Xinyi Xu, MA student, University College of London) -- 8. "Real Emotions in Virtual Play: The Impact of Honor of Kings on Players' Attitudes toward and Cognition of Historical Figures" (Wei He, PhD, associate professor and Yue Li, MA student, Beijing Normal University) -- Part IV: CULTURE -- 9. "Fan Empowerment and the Voice of the Production Sectors: A Discourse Analysis of the Contemporary Gaming Culture in China" (Boris L. F. Pun, PhD, postdoc fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong) -- 10. "Women's Esports in Hong Kong" (Hanna Wirman, PhD, associate professor, IT University of Copenhagen, and Rhys Jones, PhD, research associate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University) -- 11. "The Rise of Senior Gamers in the Greater China Region: A Text-Mining Analysis of Digital Game Industry Discourses" (Kenneth C. C. Yang, PhD, professor, University of Texas at El Paso, and Yowei Kang, PhD, assistant professor, National Taiwan Ocean University).