To begin with, what is a video game? “Interactive digital entertainment that you “play” via a computer, a game console or a phone”. (www.thewrap.com). They type of a video game can be everything from education to simulation. For example, some websites like www.codecademy.com you can go there and play online games while you are learning the basic of …show more content…
There is a new term called “e-sport” which is the abbreviation of electronic sport. This means you play a game in a competition and people call this e-sport. When we look at the video game market the best sellers for last 5 years the type of game is only one. The action games which you kill online opponent. This way of games is evolved to a new level. Now they have tournaments all around the world and the prizes are high like hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is a huge audience for these types of tournaments because they stream live and free for all around the world. There are generally two hundred thousand people watching it live. The way these tournaments are presented to audience is different than other sports. If a player kills another player, the audience enjoys it more. For example, every year there is a tournament called “ELEAGUE Major” the prize pool is one million dollars. They play a game called “Counter Strike” which is a very violent game. One team is terrorist other is counter-terrorist, they both try to kill each other. The one who has higher score wins the game. They stream the players game live and a lot of people gather in to a big conference room to watch it. When someone kills another team member all the conference room enjoys it. This has violent effect in those peoples’