Opinion

“Games are not just a diversion, games make you feel!” – Sid Meir. This quote by ace Canadian game designer and programmer, Sid Meir aptly encapsulates why playing games has become the universal addiction of our times, replacing reading or listening to music as a pastime of choice for millions. …

Ever since the pandemic, esports has been on the rise in India and worldwide. It has witnessed astronomical popularity among the country’s burgeoning millennial and gen Z population, especially during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Ubiquitous access to mobile and the internet has largely been responsible for the growth …

“A picture is worth a thousand words” this old adage will probably never be obsolete. One look at that 15-year-old, grainy college picture, and one can remember with piercing lucidity if they were smiling for the camera or the joke their friend had just cracked. Isn’t it why it is …

Did you know that 90 per cent of brain development takes place before a child reaches kindergarten? By the age of 3, the brain continues to grow to about 80 per cent of an adult’s brain and about 90 per cent by the age of 5. The attention span of …

In the last couple of years, our lives have taken an unpredictable turn, and everything that was once normal for us has become surreal; and to a large extent, for many, video games filled the void created by this unprecedented change. While gaming was growing rapidly even before the pandemic, …

Akamai Technologies, Inc., a cloud company released a new State of the Internet report showing that web application attacks on the gaming industry more than doubled over the past year. The new report, Gaming Respawned, notes these attacks come in the wake of booming popularity and demand for cloud gaming platforms. …

Gaining popularity as a preferred source of entertainment in India, online gaming is disrupting the conventional ones. Buoyed by the rapid growth in users, the country accounted for 916 million online game downloads in May 2022 which is 19.2 per cent of total worldwide downloads of games, as per the …

We have all downloaded songs and add them to our playlist in the past. But today, most of us enjoy movies and songs using streaming apps on multiple devices without any technical hassles. Why worry about downloading content or blocking storage space on a device when one can stream it …

Online gaming can be traced back to as early as the 1970s, but from the early 2000s is when this form of gaming excelled with modern technology driving gamers down a digital path. Since then, the market has been growing exponentially, even more so after millions across India were forced …

Presently, every business and multinational corporation (MNC) wants a piece of the esports industry. All well-known businesses from many walks of life are making inroads into this burgeoning industry, demonstrating the full potential of esports in India and other countries across the world.  In FY 2020, the esports business in …