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Despite the impressive growth of the video game industry in Europe and a growing interest emerging in that industrial sector (e.g. from the European Commission), there is still a knowledge deficiency in respect of its characteristics and regional impact. By mapping the most relevant active agents participating in this economic activity in Portugal, this paper explores the characteristics the industry communities, types of games developed, tools used, marketing and sales channels and economic impact. This research is based on data collected in Portugal through a survey of 70 economic agents, under the auspices of the First Atlas of video games Industry in Portugal research project. The paper concludes with an elaboration of the opportunities and challenges associated with the industry and the potential role of public and institutional policies in supporting its development and sustainability. ; This study is part of the RAGE project. The RAGE project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644187. This publication reflects only the author's view. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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).

Chapter 1 Outline of the book: A perspective on the history of the game industry -- Chapter 2 The Birth of Computer Games:Prehistory of Japanese video game industry -- Chapter 3 Arcade Games (1) From Ele-mecha to Video Games: Birth of Space Invaders and Establishment of the Arcade Game Industry. Chapter 4 PC game (1) Establishment of 8-bit trinity -- Chapter 5 Home Games (1-1) Beyond Atari Shock: Birth of Family Computer -- Chapter 6 arcade game (2) revival from the shock of Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Act -- Chapter 7 PC game (2) long-term administration of PC9801 and long stagnation -- Chapter 8. Home consoles (1-2) Family Computer and its successors -- Chapter 9 Drastic Change of Environment: Technological Revolution and Business Revolution -- Chapter 10 Arcade Games (3) The Impact of Virtua Fighters and Ridge Racer: Arcade Games Last Shine -- Chapter 11 PC Games (3) Birth of Windows 95, Recession of Domestic PC Game Makers, Birth of Online Games -- Chapter 12 home game (2) 3 big hard era -- Chapter 13 Home Game (3) Decline of Japan in game industry -- Chapter 14 PC games (4) Portable game consoles -- Chapter 15 Mobile Phone Games: The Growth of Social Games and Rapid Market Maturity -- Chapter 16 Now.

Despite the impressive growth of the video game industry in Europe and a growing interest emerging in that industrial sector, there is still a knowledge deficiency in respect of its characteristics, and its contribution to urban and regional development. This paper explores the characteristics of the industry communities, location factors, types of games developed, tools used, marketing and sales channels and economic impact. This research is based on data collected in Portugal through a survey of 70 economic agents, under the auspices of the First Atlas of video games Industry in Portugal research project. The paper concludes with an elaboration of the opportunities and challenges associated with the industry and the potential role of public and institutional policies in supporting its development and sustainability. ; This study is part of the RAGE project. The RAGE project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644187. This publication reflects only the author's view. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

Passionate about video gaming and the legal profession, childhood friends Younes Sebbarh, Gilles Leyssen and Camille Degrave were able to pool a group of specialised lawyers who were willing to contribute to this guide on the legal aspects of the videogame industry.00With seven specific chapters, this book tries to provide a first answer to the most important legal questions that might arise in the lifecycle of a video-game company. These insights are intended to be applicable irrespective of your jurisdiction, illustrated by real-life situations and easy to read for individuals without a legal background

"The business of videogames is both a prestige industry and a very opaque one. Based on dozens of firsthand interviews and covering the development of landmark games including Bioshock: Infinite, Epic Mickey, Dead Space, and more, and through the studios' shocking closures, this book will tell the stories of how real people are affected by game studio shutdowns -- and how and if they recover. Jason Schreier has made a name for himself as gaming's preeminent investigative journalist. In PRESS RESET, through countless of insider interviews that cover hostile takeovers, abusive bosses, corporate drama, bounced checks, and that one time the Boston Red Sox's Curt Schilling decided he was going to lead a game studio that would take out World of Warcraft, Schreier covers not only why video games are so hard to make, he explores why it's so hard to make a living making games in the first place."

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Peter Zackariasson and Timothy L. Wilson -- This is not a software industry / Casey O'Donnell -- Video games : a subcultural industry / Mikolaj Dymek -- Marketing of video games / Peter Zackariasson and Timothy L. Wilson -- An exploration of the mobile gaming ecosystem from developers' perspective / Claudio Feijo -- The North American game industry / Casey O'Donnell -- The UK and Irish game industries / Aphra Kerr -- The development of the Swedish game industry : a true success story? / Ulf Sandqvist -- Console hardware : the development of Nintendo WII / Mirko Ernkvist -- "Warm and stuffy" : the ecological impact of electronic games / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller -- Gamification as the post-modern phalanstre is the gamification playing with us or are we playing with gamification? / Flavio Escribano -- The evolving European video games software ecosystem / Giuditta De Prato, Sven Lindmark and Jean-Paul Simon -- Through the looking glass sharply / Timothy L. Wilson and Peter Zackariasson -- Notes on contributors -- Notes -- Index.

Many call for research invites for further investigation of the underlying processes, practices and specificities of governance in the network context. Through an examination of what governance involves and how does it occur in a French cluster of video game companies, our multimethod study provide useful insights in the functions and purposes of governance in an inter-organizational and collaborative context, the main tools and mechanisms that are being used and the structure supporting these purposes and mechanisms. Our findings shed also light upon the processual nature of governance in network context. Governance is a set of processes, or a "meta-process", that are geared toward the creation, the maintenance and the evolution of collaboration relationships and the network as a collective actor. We refer to this process of governance functioning, evolution and continuous (re) evaluation as governance work.

Many call for research invites for further investigation of the underlying processes, practices and specificities of governance in the network context. Through an examination of what governance involves and how does it occur in a French cluster of video game companies, our multimethod study provide useful insights in the functions and purposes of governance in an inter-organizational and collaborative context, the main tools and mechanisms that are being used and the structure supporting these purposes and mechanisms. Our findings shed also light upon the processual nature of governance in network context. Governance is a set of processes, or a "meta-process", that are geared toward the creation, the maintenance and the evolution of collaboration relationships and the network as a collective actor. We refer to this process of governance functioning, evolution and continuous (re) evaluation as governance work.

A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South. A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives. Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.

chapter Introduction -- chapter The Social and Economic Impact of Games -- chapter 1 Shigeru Miyamoto and the Art of Donkey Kong -- chapter The Legend of Zelda -- chapter The Rise of Adventure Fantasy Games -- chapter 2 Nintendo's Dark Age -- chapter 3 PlayStation Dreams -- chapter Partnership with Nintendo -- chapter The Advent of Disk-based Media -- chapter The Rise of the PlayStation -- chapter 4 Xbox Empire -- chapter Xbox Ambitions -- chapter The Xbox Live Experience -- chapter 5 The Brain Age: Handheld Consoles and their Impact on Adult Gamers -- chapter Early Handheld Devices -- chapter 6 Rings of Death -- chapter The Launch of the Xbox 360 -- chapter Product Defects Show up Early -- chapter 7 The PlayStation 3: Sony's "Supercomputer" -- chapter Pricing -- chapter The Impact of Product Decisions -- chapter 8 Blu-Rays and Netflix: Defining "the Ultimate High-Definition Experience" -- chapter 9 The Wii Revolution -- chapter Sony and Microsoft Respond -- chapter 10 Game Development and the Rise of Casual Games -- chapter Build or Buy -- chapter Back to Basics: The Rise of Casual Games -- chapter 11 Guitar Hero Nation -- chapter Conclusion -- chapter Epilogue -- chapter Bibliography -- chapter Index -- chapter About the Authors.