#5-Top 10 Amazing Facts About Online Gaming That Will Blow Your Mind

#5-Top 10 Amazing Facts About Online Gaming That Will Blow Your Mind

1: Starcraft is the first game to be played in space. Daniel Barry, a NASA astronaut took a copy of the game with him on the Space Shuttle mission STS-96 in 1999.

2: Smartphone is the gaming device of choice for 41% of gamers. Mobile games (smartphones and tablets) make up 51% of the global market.

3: The wealthiest pro gamer in the world has earned over $4 million. KuroKy (Kuro Takhasomi) is a German pro player who amassed the overwhelming amount of $4,165,926 in prize money. He plays one of the most popular computer games ever – Dota 2.

4: The Global Games Market Projected to Exceed $150 Billion in 2019. Nowadays, the gaming business is available to all consumers around the globe, at all times and across all platforms including mobile, console, PC games, and streaming media.

5: 63% of players aged 25-34 play VR games. More than half of the active gamers between the age of 25-and 34 take advantage of the VR games on the market. 

6: Xbox was originally named DirectX Box as a reference to Microsoft’s graphics API, DirectX. The integrated Xbox Live service launched in November 2002 allowed players to play games online with or without a broadband connection.

7: There are More Females Online Gamers than Males. Half of the female PC gamers in the U.S. consider themselves to be core or hardcore gamers.

8: The market value of the gaming industry in India was around 62 billion Indian rupees in 2019 and was estimated to go up to over 250 billion rupees by 2024.

9: South Korea has a rule called ‘Cinderella law’ which disallows under-16 gamers to play online video games after midnight.

10: Games are great for language gains. Research even showed that the language acquisition didn’t even require that the game was a language game.