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A run on consoles during the pandemic allowed researchers to test whether gaming causes changes in the mental well-being of players.
Video game–related health problems. Game addiction problems can induce repetitive strain injuries, skin disorders or other health issues. Other problems include video game-provoked seizures in patients with epilepsy. [1] In rare and extreme cases, deaths have resulted from excessive video game playing (see Deaths due to video game addiction).
With many people globally at home and unable to work, online gaming has observed record numbers of players during the pandemic as a popular activity to counter physical distancing for society, a practice recommended by the World Health Organization [2] that helped boost revenues for many companies in the gaming industry. [3][4]
This is a list of countries by quality of healthcare as published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). [1]
The gaming market has surpassed sports and movies combined. Here's how games are playing a key role in our well-being in a post-pandemic world.
Games for Health are games that aim to either promote health or to prevent, diagnose or treat (chronic) diseases. These games, which are generally considered serious games, aim to influence health outcomes by increasing the user's knowledge and changing their behaviors through play.
This is a listing of largest video game publishers and developers ranked by reported revenue. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Among the 50 largest video game companies, thirteen are based in the United States, ten in Japan, six each in South Korea and ...
Video gaming in the United States is one of the fastest-growing entertainment industries in the country. The American video game industry is the largest video game industry in the world.