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Towards the end of 2023 and continuing into 2024, the video game industry saw a large number of layoffs, with over 10,000 jobs lost in 2023 and at least 8,000 in 2024 by February 2024. While other factors contributed to the layoffs, such as previous acquisitions and mergers that came after 2021, the return to normalcy after COVID changed the ...
Below is a list of notable people who work or have worked in the video game industry. The list is divided into different roles, but some people fit into more than one category. For example, Sid Meier is both a game designer and programmer . [1]
The film industry and video game industry have a long and detailed common history – the two industries have collaborated many times since the 1980s. This includes collaboration between people from both industries and projects resulting in products such as video games, film adaptations of video games, among other things.
Christopher Strachey's Draughts is the first verifiable video game to run on a general-purpose computer.. The United Kingdom had been a key participant in the 18th and 19th century history of computing, in both its theoretical underpinnings (e.g. George Boole's Boolean algebra) and especially its practical application, including the first computing device.
Some media outlets compared the 2023-2024 layoffs to the video game crash of 1983, when the US video game market collapsed due to an oversaturation of poorly made, low-quality games, causing the video game industry to enter a recession for two years. This has sparked discussions about a potential "second video game crash."
Among the 50 largest video game companies, thirteen are based in the United States, ten in Japan, six each in South Korea and China, four each in France and Sweden, and one each in Israel, Poland, Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, and Italy, respectively.
Dona Bailey - American game programmer who, along with Ed Logg in 1981, created the arcade video game Centipede.; Laura Bailey - American voice actress.; Ellen Beeman - American fantasy and science fiction author, cofounder the industry group Women in Games International, and computer game designer/producer since the 1990s.
