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6 Most Valuable Gaming Companies in the World

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6 Most Valuable Gaming Companies in the World
6 Most Valuable Gaming Companies in the World

In 2018, the global revenue in the gaming industry grew by 10.9% to reach $135 billion, and in 2021, the revenue for this industry increased to $180.1 billion. This is just the beginning as analysts believe the industry will reach as much as $300 billion by 2025. The growth is mainly coming from mobile games. With an audience of 2.5 billion “regularly active” players, they lead the industry.

Special emphasis is placed on occasional play: “casual” and “hyper-casual” games, which are lite games that you play while waiting for the bus. With the mechanism of “in-game” purchases (the games are virtually free, but while you play you can buy extras for small amounts that make the game more fun), casual gaming is the growth pole par excellence. 99 cents for a handful of “coins”, multiplied by about 2.5 billion players and the bill is rapidly increasing. Not surprisingly, the strongest growth has come from Asia, especially Bahrain, where online Bahrain casino كازينو البحرين and e-sports are very ‘hot’. Very popular are the (role) games in which many players can participate at the same time (massive multiplayer).

Despite the large number of gaming companies available on the scene, this industry is led by six main companies, namely:

Microsoft

The American Microsoft develops both games and large game systems and is a major competitor of Sony, which actually does the same. At the moment, the 2020 release, among other things, contributes significantly to the income, namely game console Xbox Series X/S. It is also acquiring many game companies, including Bungie (Halo), Mojang (Minecraft) and most recently Activision-Blizzard (World of Warcraft).

Microsoft software is ubiquitous. The Windows operating system still controls the PC market, while SQL Server is one of the major database platforms. In addition, Office 365 & Microsoft Dynamics are among the most popular software applications for businesses. Finally, Azure ensures that Microsoft is one of the most important cloud players. But something few investors know is that 38% of revenue comes from the gaming division.

Microsoft divides its activities into 3 segments, which is not a superfluous luxury to keep an overview. ‘Personal Computing’ includes the well-known Windows operating system for PCs and the hardware of our own making, such as the Xbox console for (online) gaming and the Surface tablets. This department still accounts for about 40% of revenue, with Windows accounting for the lion’s share.

Microsoft’s market capitalization is$929 billion, the largest stock in the world. The estimated P/E ratio for 2019 is 27.29x. KBC Asset Management has a “Buy” recommendation with a price target of $125.

Some of the best games that the company released are:

·  Sea of Thieves

·  Minecraft

·  Age of Empires

·  Forza

Sony

Sony from Japan does much more than games. Walking in 7 slots at the same time is not good, but Sony doesn’t seem to be bothered by that. It is a household name in the technology world, but certainly also in that of games. Sony develops its own games and its own consoles, of which PlayStation 5 from 2020, in particular, is a high flyer. It’s a shame there are so many delivery issues, otherwise, Sony could have been much more successful. After all, people not only invest in a console but then also buy games for it.

Nintendo

When you say Microsoft and Sony, we also must mention Nintendo. The third and last major pillar when it comes to making game consoles, although Valve is now also lurking with its Steam Deck to become known for hardware. Nintendo needs no introduction: The Japanese puzzle company was founded in 1889, but shifted to video games in the late 20th century. A smart move: the most beloved and recognizable game characters in the world belong to Nintendo: the characters from Mario, Zelda and Pokémon. In addition, it makes its own game consoles, of which the handheld console hybrid Switch is also a huge hit.

Activision Blizzard

Despite Activision Blizzard being recently acquired by Microsoft but right now it is still a gaming powerhouse in its own right. The company was founded in 2008 by the merger of – unsurprisingly – Activision and Blizzard Entertainment. The American company has since created and developed many of the largest franchises and a number of competitive, online games: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Call of Duty, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Crash Bandicoot games and more.

Tencent

Founded in Shenzhen, China, Tencent has grown into one of the largest game companies in the world. Its revenue from games was 13 billion euros in 2021. It is best known for mobile games, such as PUBG: Mobile and Honor of Kings.

Tencent is a bit of an odd one out. While most publishers launch games for PC and/or consoles and offer mobile versions, Tencent mainly derives its income from online gaming and (online) advertising. That makes Tencent the largest online gaming company in the world.

Tencent has a significant advantage over other online gaming companies as it enjoys network effects through WeChat’s very sizable customer base. Tencent thus created a digital ecosystem that aims to meet a wide range of online lifestyle needs of its users. The company plays it smart: it also has shares in many other major game companies around the world. From their ownership of League of Legends developer Riot Games to their 40% stake in Epic Games and 5% stake in Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft, Tencent “messes” with many of the game companies featured in this article that way.

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts (better known as EA) was founded in 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins. The company pioneered software game development and has managed to stay relevant to this day. Thanks in part to long-running franchises such as Battlefield, Need for Speed, The Sims, Dragon Age, Star Wars, FIFA, Madden NFL and NBA Live. EA is especially good in sports games, which are innovated every year and played by countless sports fans (and sports pros). EA is also at the helm of major game studios such as DICE, BioWare and Respawn Entertainment.

It has a market capitalization of $29.3 billion. Americans invest heavily in interactive games and Electronic Arts has a separate department for this: The Competitive Gaming Division. The digital component accounts for 65% of revenue. That includes games offered through Sony’s Playstation Network, Microsoft’s Xbox Store, Apple’s App Store, and Google’s Play store. The estimated P/E ratio for 2019 is 25.08.

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Qatar Fifa World Cup: A bit of a flop

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Qatar Fifa World Cup: A bit of a flop
Qatar Fifa World Cup: A bit of a flop
An inflatable trophy collapsed at Fifa Word cup 2022 stadium

Doha regrets hosting the Fifa world cup after an embarrassing incident at the stadium when an inflatable trophy collapsed.

Sports Correspondent “Jimmy Hill” Doha

As I sit here in Doha waiting to find out when and where the 2022 Fifa World Cup will start. I can’t help but think back to the great tournaments of the past… 1966, England, the incredible rerun of WWII in which England came out 4-2 victors after extra time – with a little help from a Russian linesman. 1978, Argentina. The blazing heat. The Cruyff no-show. The ticker-tape final in which Mario Kempes’ double strike claimed the $20 million, 18-karat gold FIFA World Cup Trophy. 1998, France. Zinedine Zidane’s masterclass in heading steers the hosts to their first WC Trophy win over a Brazil team in disarray. All incredible, iconic moments in world football. And what did they all have in common? People watched it. In their millions.

Just popping down the Red Lion, love.

Yes. People used to actually watch the Fifa World Cup. It was considered exciting, important even. Men would gather in pubs with big flatscreen TV’s, and leave the remaining members of their families to gather around transistor radios in dingy, poorly furnished living rooms to listen to cracking commentaries from me, John Motson, and Barry Davies.

Children would buy or steal packets of Panini stickers from their local newsagents with which they would quarter-fill their albums. Boy racers would attach flags to their Ford Cortinas as they sped between pubs honking at other fans or teenage girls hanging around shoe shops on the High Street.

Fifa World Cup Fever

Café owners of all nationalities (especially the Greeks and Portuguese) would drape their interiors with their national flags and posters of their star players as they huddled around badly tuned, wall-mounted TVs cheering, yelping, and yelling at every kick of the ball (or foul, if they were Argentinian.)

And boys (this was before girls played football) would take to parks and street corners to emulate their favourite players and re-enact wondrous goals from the day’s play. Even invent winning goals for upcoming games in which they dreamed they’d play.

They think it’s all over… it is now.

I’ve been sitting here for three days, waiting for something to happen. Apparently, the tournament began on Sunday with a game between the hosts and Ecuador. I have no idea what happened. Nor, it seems does anyone else. All I know is that lots of people aren’t allowed to wear rainbow armbands and that something is going on in the stadiums while everyone is at work

Is anyone actually watching?

Chris Rea not driving home for Christmas

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Chris Rea not driving home for Christmas
Chris Rea not driving home for Christmas

Chris Rea will be prevented from driving home for Christmas this year due to his local garage failing his beloved Fiat 500’s MOT.

Rea, 71, famous for driving home from concert tours for Christmas to his wife, Joan, and children, Josephine and Christina, told the Suffolk Gazette that this year he would be spending the whole festive season out on the road to hell with his band. “Yeah, wey am gooted laike.” (Rea is from Middlesbrough) “Ah alwees draives hyem for Chrismass laike, but this year I can’t.

Them basstuds in the garage, wouldn’t pass me Fiat laike. Even wen ah ses tiv ‘em… ‘D’yee knaa who ay am?’ They ses ‘actuaaly, we de knaa who yee are. Yoor that Chris Rea off ther radio who sings that sang – Driving hyem fur Christmas aren’t yee leik?’”

We tried to keep up with what Rea was saying…

“’Aye’, I ses. ‘Ow d’yee knaa who I am, then?’ ‘n’ this cheeky basstud says ‘Becos yee left yoor cack CD in yer car radio and that’s an instant fail.’”

LGBTQ+Everyone else excluded from Qatar World Cup

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LGBTQ+Everyone else excluded from Qatar World Cup
Your name’s not down. You’re not coming in to Qatar World cup 2022.

LGBTQ+ football fans are justifiably feeling excluded from the 2022 Qatar World Cup because of the Muslim Country’s hostile treatment towards same-sex couples.

Gay, lezzer, and all the other exotic sexual preferences are banned in the ‘somewhere-in-the-middle-eastern’ country, preventing followers from enjoying not only sporting tournaments, but also: the Eurovision song contest, BBC re-runs of ‘Are you being served?’, Village People tribute acts and documentaries about Martina Navratilova.

Qatar World Cup: Discrimi-nation

But LGBTQ-plussers shouldn’t feel alone. Why? Because everyone else in the world has been excluded too! Qatar WC ’22 is the most inaccessible world cup ever staged. For a kick-off, no one knows where Qatar is, let alone how to get there. If it could be found on a map, it is rumoured to be one of the most expensive regions in the Middle East for a tourist to visit. The cost of beer, wine, and spirits in Catarrh is super inflated with a pint of draft beer costing about £12, and an off-license bottle of wine around £30 – and you have to get pissed when you watch football.

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun… before Qatar WC ‘22

Then there is the choice of season. It’s winter FFS. World cups are supposed to be held in summer so that the picture on the telly is fuzzy due to the heat rising up from the cauldron atmosphere of the arena. And English football fans back in England like to go to the pub wearing singlets, shorts, and sandals. Not anoraks, balaclavas and Wellington boots. And who agreed for England matches to take place on a Monday at 1pm? 1pm? On a Monday? Do people in Catarrh not have jobs? Lunch breaks in England end at 1pm – FFS.

We all stand together

So there we have it. Welcome to Qatar World Cup 2022, slogan “Now is All” which apparently stands for “When you live your dream, realise your destiny – and own the moment.” What bollocks. No-one in the UK, whether gay, straight, or employed is living a dream, realising their destiny, nor owning the moment. And considering no one is able to affordably visit the place, a more fitting slogan would be…

“Qatar World Cup 2022. Your name’s not down. You’re not coming in.”

Man returns lost £4 million cheque to Haribo

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Man returns lost £4 million cheque to Haribo
Man returns lost £4 million cheque to Haribo
Man returns lost £4 million cheque to Haribo

A man who found a cheque to the value of £4 million made out to Confectioners Haribo, has been ‘rewarded’ with only six bags of sweets.

Retired bus driver Hernando Aribo, 71 from Lagos, Portugal noticed the cheque lying in a puddle on the platform of Gosbeck station in Suffolk.

Haribo’s Hero

Hernando who has lived in Gosbeck for over 30 years, told this reporter that upon noticing the sum on the cheque. He nearly fell over backwards. “When I saw the sum on the cheque. I started to fall over backwards, which was unusual because I normally fall forwards when I find something of this nature.”

Maybe

Mr Aribo grew up in Portugal as the fourth son of a goat herder from the small town of Ikanna near Lagos. The family was dirt poor but little Aribo always dreamt of being a multi-millionaire bus driver. “I always dreamt of being a multi-millionaire bus driver. I used to say to myself – Hernando – Maybe one day some luck will come your way and you will easily get your £4 million. Maybe. But maybe not.”

Maybe not

Hernando, who, as a retired public servant doesn’t have to ha’pennys to rub together,.wasn’t sure what to do with the cheque. “I noticed that the cheque was payable to Haribo, which is a coincidence because my initials are H.Aribo. How strange! The only difference between the payee and my own name is a little tiny full-stop dot. Such bad luck! Ha ha ha. Even though I had always dreamt of having £4 million,.and even though the only thing that was stopping me from being able to cash the cheque was the omission of a little tiny full-stop dot, and even though I had a black biro pen in my jacket pocket, I just didn’t know what to do with cheque.”

So what did you do with the cheque, H.Aribo?

“I sent it to Haribo and got six bags of sweets as a reward.”

Dear God.

Disney’s Cars 4 ‘UK Gridlock’ release date announced

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Disney’s Cars 4 ‘UK Gridlock’ release date announced
Disney's Cars 4 ‘UK Gridlock’ release date announced
Evergreen truck to be introduced a a villain in the movie.

UK Gridlock inspired long-awaited fourth instalment of the popular Disney Pixel Cars film series is due for release in the UK in time for Christmas.

Set amidst the traffic chaos of the UK’s overcrowded road network. Cars 4 (or 5) ‘UK Gridlock’ is sure to put bums back on the seats of Britain’s half-empty cinemas. If motorists can get through the traffic to arrive on time, that is.

Annoying UK Gridlock

The new movie introduces a new character – villian, ‘Evergreen’. A road-raging articulated lorry whose fury at being stuck in heavy traffic all the time, boils over into a destructive rampage causing even more traffic chaos, annoying diversions, and road closures.

Lightning McQueen, the series’ hero, learns about Evergreen’s angry antics from a news report. He watches on Fox News whilst on a break from preparing for the Florida 500. Evergreen’s furious temperament reminds McQueen of his dad (whose family originated from Scotland). From whom he is estranged, so he decides to quit the 500 for the UK to hunt down the loony lorry.

Entirely plausible ending

The film’s conclusion is a closely-guarded secret, but having considered the above synopsis over a cup of tea and a Twix. We at the Suffolk Gazette reckon we might have figured it out. After McQueen arrives in the UK and has about an hour’s worth of zany, uproarious, slapstick car chases. He finally catches up with the exhausted Evergreen. After an emotional heart-to-heart over a few cans of engine oil, McQueen realizes that Evergreen is… of course… wait for it… HIS DAD!!!! Evergreen McQueen. Genius!

£40 for a plush Evergreen McQueen

With the first three or four films having accrued over $1.4 billion in box office revenue worldwide. Associated merchandising sales amassing over $10 billion, Disney Pixar hopes the introduction of the new character in the hellish setting of UK road traffic will make the latest breathless instalment an Oscar contender.

Cars 4 ‘UK Gridlock’ opens at the Rio Cinema, Ipswich on 1st December.

New sign patrolled zones trialled in Suffolk

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New sign patrolled zones trialled in Suffolk
New sign patrolled zones trialled in Suffolk

Why didn’t anyone think of it before? Instead of paying millions for a Police Service, just ban crime with a simple prohibitive sign patrolled zones. So simple, yet so ineffective.

Yes, this is the latest bright idea from East Suffolk Council, designed to reduce crime, sorry, reduce costs in dozens of neighbourhoods across the county. At a cost of about £6,000, five-hundred street signs prohibiting all crime between the hours of 8am and 6pm are being erected in towns and villages in East Suffolk including: Aldeburgh, Beccles, Felixstowe, Framlingham, Halesworth, Lowestoft, and Southwold as well parts of the wider Ipswich built-up area including Kesgrave, Martlesham, and Woodbridge.

How much for patrolled zones?

A press release issued by the Town Hall declared that “not only do we expect to see a reduction in crime of up to 50% in the new ‘sign patrolled zones’, but we are also saving the hard-pressed council tax payers of the county around £1.3 million in cost reductions to regular crime prevention services. We intend to re-invest the savings into some overseas fact-finding junkets for councillors, a refurbishment of the Town Hall’s ageing facilities including a new bar, gym, and Jacuzzi, and long overdue inflation-busting salary increases for the senior management team including the chief executive, Steven Baker, who is only on £155,920. (true)”

Tennent’s extra! Read all about it!

So how effective are the signs? We hit the Kirkley Cliff Road promenade in Lowestoft to find out. So what we did, my colleague John & I was, we posed as a couple of old dossers sitting on a park bench on the front, with a few empty cans of tennent’s extra and a few loose chipped potatoes scattered on the street around us. We also had a very large vintage Philips D 8304 Boombox Ghettoblaster Dual Deck Stereo Cassette Radio playing 80’s jazz funk music enticingly placed about 15ft away from us. We busted a few moves and drank some of the brewskis, and waited…

Do you want vinegar on those chips?

Sure enough, at about 11.15 pm, as we pretended to be unconscious (me on the bench and John laying on the floor in front of me),  a shadowy figure skulked towards us. We were videotaping everything on a camcorder secreted inside the chip bag on the floor beside us. The batteries on the Boombox were starting to wear down but ‘Break Dance Party’ by Break Machine could still just about be heard. The stranger began to close in. We were sure that we were just about to catch a thief in the act when – it started to rain. Or at least that’s what we thought was happening. In actual fact, the person who approached us had removed his penis and started to urinate over us both, FFS.

So there we have it, proof positive that signs patrolled zones do in fact work. The Boombox trap had failed.

Well done, East Suffolk council!

Cock Soup up for Michelin award

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Cock Soup up for Michelin award

Customer surprised after local restaurant served a “special soup” nominated for Michelin award.

Regular readers of the Suffolk Gazette will remember our September report about a karate-chopping incident.that occurred at ‘The Dugout’, the in-house restaurant at Dedham Canoeing Club, Suffolk.

The incident involving local Red Indian thug, Joe Thunderhawk, resulted in the restaurant’s trashing and condemnation. Since then, the Dugout has been rebuilt and last Friday, re-opened with a stylish new décor and menu.

The ethnic eatery, popular with the local watersports-loving Eskimo and red Indian communities,.was full of diners excited to see what the new Dugout had to offer. In preparation for the grand re-opening, head chef, Atiqtalaaq, even traveled to Alaska and Montana,.US states heavily populated with first nation Americans, to research and meticulously plan a new, authentic menu of traditional caribou-based dishes.

Michelin award deserving soup

So you can imagine the surprise on the faces of the customers who eagerly ordered the ‘soup of the day’ up for Michelin award when,.what had been billed as ‘A delicious, caribou meat and seaweed wine soup, unique to the indigenous first nation peoples of North America’ arrived at the tables resembling a Japanese miso-style soup with a large human cock as the main ingredient.

Suffice to say, several (although not all) of the appetizers were immediately returned to the kitchen.absent compliments to the chef.

Cock au vin

Jane, an emo waitress who has worked at the restaurant for two years told this reporter what was behind the cock soup cock-up. “You remember the Joe Thunderhawk incident, yes? Well, Joe’s not normal. He’s off-the-scale insane. After he destroyed the place last time he was here, he was seen cruising around Dedham on his motorbike, late at night, wearing a maternity dress. I know… I told you he was nuts. Anyway, it seems the destruction of the restaurant at his hands was an epiphany for him because a couple of days after he destroyed the place, he graffiti’d Oxfam’s window with “Joe now be woman – woman clothes better”, and that was that.”

Yes, but what has that got to do with the human cock in the caribou soup? I asked Jane.

“Well, I saw him earlier tonight, hanging around the kitchen. You work it out.”

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