Le cloud gaming : l'avenir du jeu vidéo ?

  Si avec l’évolution technologique constante actuelle beaucoup de joueurs attendent désespérément que la réalité virtuelle vienne chambouler toute l’industrie des jeux vidéo, encore peu de personnes n’évoquent le potentiel du cloud gaming.   Qu'est ce que le cloud gaming ? Vulgarisé par la presse comme le futur « Netflix du…

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E-sport: the challenge of a new born world

Amazon announced on August 25th 2014 the acquisition of the video games streaming platform Twitch, created in 2011, for 970 million dollars. On the website twitchalert, which allows to display in direct donations and subscriptions of the streamer's channel, indicates, on December 3rd 2015, that 722,975 are using it, for…

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Free-to-play, Pay-to-win: Microtransactions in Video Games

With the emergence of social networks and mobile gaming, video game editors found new ways to extend their reach to new consumers. Free games slowly started to appear before flooding the market. This new type of gaming was followed by a new economic model: the “free-to-play and pay-to-win” system, based…

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Amazon swoops in and acquires Twitch despite Youtube’s effort

It’s finally official, after several rumours about Twitch’s acquisition, the popular live-streaming website will be part of the ever-growing list of companies swallowed by industry giants. However rumours were wrong about which company was going to seal the deal.
 

Photo via gamespot.com
Photo via gamespot.com

 
In a way, the rumours made sense, Twitch’s video-based content fits nicely with Youtube’s business. But in the end, and despite Youtube’s effort, Amazon will buy all remaining shares of Twitch which amount to about $970 million in cash. (suite…)

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