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                               Exciting careers in the



                      GAMING INDUsTRY




          against the backdrop of a fast developing transnational itES gaming industry, there’s no
           dearth of career opportunities as india establishes a reputation as the next gaming hub

         A                                                reach $196 billion (Rs.14.7 lakh crore) in annual revenues
                  by-product of the booming IT, ITEs (informa-
                  tion technology enabled services) and the BPO
                                                          by 2022.
                  (business process outsourcing) businesses, the
                                                             Currently, specialist divisions and subsidiaries of IT
                  gaming phenomenon, born out of the leisure
         pursuits of IT geeks, has become a major global industry   megaliths as well as garage start-ups are inventing con-
                                                          sole video, desktop, online, mobile and wireless games at
         in its own right. Not only in the Us and Japan, but also in   bewildering speed. In particular, the online gaming market
         slow-coach India where only 41 percent of the country’s   which allows contestants separated by vast oceans to play
         population has Internet connectivity.            mind games and match skills, is set to experience boom
           A rising star of India’s entertainment sector, the an-  conditions as access and broadband connectivity rates
         nual revenue of the country’s nascent gaming industry is   improve significantly. Against this backdrop of a fast-de-
         estimated at $890 million (Rs.6,675 crore). According to   veloping transnational gaming industry, there’s no dearth
         the National Association of software and services Com-  of career options as India’s reputation as the next gaming
         panies (NASSCOM), the sales revenue of Indian gaming   hub is growing by leaps and bounds.
         companies is expected to rise to $1.1 billion (Rs.8,250   The process of digital games development generally
         crore) by 2020. The global gaming industry is expected to   involves three stages — the creative process (conceptualisa-









































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