Top 10 facts about Gaming that you didnt know yet
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1. Mortal Kombat was originally planned as a game starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and it was going to be called simply Van Damme.
The game developer said the film Bloodsport was a recent release at the time, and the game was modeled after that style of fighting tournament. Van Damme rejected the offer, so the developers used him for inspiration to create the character Johnny Cage—a cocky and narcissistic movie star When Van Damme’s representatives rejected the offer, they said he had already signed a video game deal with Sega. Mortal Kombat’s developers have said that was strange because Sega never released a Van Damme game. The developer said that after Van Damme turned down the offer, they considered a variety of possible names for the game. They included “all these crazy, almost cliché, martial art movie titles,” such as Kumite, Dragon Attack, Deathblow, and Final Fist.
2. Master Chief from Halo franchise is a radio DJ.
The voice actor who has played Master Chief in every Halo game to date is more famously known as Steve Downes, a radio DJ dating back to the late 1970s. Downes was most recently on Chicago’s WDRV “The Drive.”
3. Prince of Persia: Assassin’s Creed.
Ubisoft’s long-running and highly successful Assassin’s Creed series was originally going to be a Prince of Persia spin-off. The game was called Prince of Persia: Assassins, and it told the story of a female assassin tasked with protecting a prince in Jerusalem. After roughly a year of development, Ubisoft rejected the idea as it didn’t focus on the prince enough. The game was reworked to the Assassin’s Creed we know today.
4. The PlayStation was originally designed as a Nintendo Console.
The PlayStation was originally designed as a Nintendo Console with Sony to make the inside components when Nintendo console changed their minds about making the console Sony decided to go ahead make the PlayStation.
5. Free Games Earn Millions.
One of the most surprising facts about mobile gaming is that the highest earning titles are all free. They don’t charge gamers to buy the game. They instead earn through other means like microtransactions, ads, and DLC.
Some of the highest earning free games include Arena of Valor (also known as Honor of Kings), Clash of Clans, Plants vs Zombies, and the Angry Birds games. Arena of Valor, in particular, earned $150 million in the month of June this year and a port for the Nintendo Switch is in the works. Clash of Clans generated over $2.3 billion in revenue back in 2015.
6. China Dominates the Mobile Gaming Market.
The mobile gaming market is increasing, with an estimated $108.9 billion in revenue in 2017. China is dominating that market as it accounts for $27.5 billion, approximately one-quarter of the global total. Some of the highest ranking mobile games in history come from China. These include games like Arena of Valor, Onmyoji, Fantasy Westward Journey, CrossFire and most recently PUBG mobile.
7. Female Mobile Gamers Outnumber Males.
Yep, this might be a bit of shock for many but Female Mobile gamers do outnumber the otherwise expected male majority.majority of mobile games are Match-3 puzzle games and life sims such as Animal Crossing or The Sims. It turns out that 69% of people who play these genres are females. Female gamers also count for the majority of those who play casual games. These include titles like Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Angry Birds. Female gamers playing MOBA titles, like Mobile Legends, is also growing. The studies show that 10% of MOBA gamers are female. On the other end of the spectrum, only 2% of sports gamers are female.
8. Xbox was almost the DirectX Box
In 1999, Microsoft’s Ed Fries met with the DirectX team to discuss a new idea called the DirectX Box, a PC with a hidden Windows OS that would be marketed as a console machine. The first mockup of the DirectX Box was a silver X with a PC board inside. As the project moved through development, Windows was dropped, the console look changed, and it was eventually renamed Xbox.
9. Games do a body—and mind—good.
Playing action video games trains people to make right decisions faster. How? Players develop a heightened sense of their surroundings and that helps them multitask. And surgeons that regularly play video games make 37% fewer errors and perform their tasks 27% faster than peers.
10. Gaming Stats of USA.
- More than 150 million Americans play video games, and 64 percent of American households are home to at least one person who plays video games regularly or at least three hours per week.
- 60 percent of Americans play video games daily.
- The average gamer is 34 years old and 72 percent are age 18 or older. Women age 18 and older represent a significantly greater portion of the video game-playing population (33 percent) than boys under age 18 (17 percent).
- Most parents (70 percent) say video games are a positive part of their child’s life. Most parents (67 percent) also play video games with their child at least once weekly and 94 percent say they pay attention to the video games played by their child.
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