On PC gaming platform Steam, Cult of the Lamb has seen hundreds of thousands of downloads, and while Wilton can’t reveal the exact figures due to Massive Monster’s backing by UK-listed Devolver Digital, pre-sales numbers show the game has already recouped its investment costs.

onth Wearing headphones and pkvgames anti-sweat finger sleeves, gamers from eight countries guided gun-toting avatars through a battle royale in the Saudi capital, as cheering onlookers watched the action on a b

While Cole grew up patiently playing his way through mainstream games that weren’t designed with his needs in mind, he said some younger blind gamers have grown up with audio-only, although whether these are in fact better is a question of taste.

creen. The PUBG Mobile tournament was part of Gamers8, a summer festival spotlighting Saudi Arabia’s emergence as a global eSports dynamo — one that officials hope can compete with powerhouses like China and So

But things are changing rapidly, according to US-based video game industry accessibility consultant Brandon Cole, with mainstream games that incorporate the needs of vision impaired players, and a range of audio-only games on the market.

world. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has recommended raising the console’s retail price in Europe, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico and Canada, the company’s top official Jim

«Video games are the one of the greatest mediums for escapism, because not only do they allow you to experience a story the same way a book or a movie would… you get to play those characters and interact with that world,» he told AAP.

orld.» Gaming is also expected to be a major component of headline-grabbing development projects like the Red Sea megacity NEOM, with its planned 170-kilometre-long (105 miles) twin skyscrapers known as

oment. «In order to offer unique entertainment to a wide range of customers, we want to avoid pricing people out,» President Shuntaro Furukawa told the Nikkei business daily in an article published earlier t

mming. «One of the most amazing things for me is at our recent event, at Gamers8, the amount of young Saudi players who came up to me and said, ‘We always loved watching these things, but we never thought we would have it here,'» he

?- «Saudi Arabia’s reputation will always be a hindrance to the Western eSport community, despite attempts to improve it,» said Jason Delestre of the University of Lille, who studies the geopolitics o

Korea. Much like with Formula One and professional golf, the world’s biggest oil exporter has in recent years leveraged its immense wealth to assert itself on the eSports stage, hosting glitzy conferences and snapping up established tournament o

A great personality and technical talent though he may be, Zlatan Ibrahimovic fails to realise that he is fast approaching the end of a long and troubled career at the top of the game, never having won football’s greatest prizes like the Ballon d’Or or the Champions League. 

As teenagers, his fans grew up watching this slender, playful youth without a tattoo in sight at Ajax and Juventus, but where they have now moved on with their lives, the 41-year-old still masquerades on the pitch as a teenager at the start of his career. 

He has pain in his knees and by his own admission when he gets up in the morning he himself is nervous of what will happen to his body, but his love for the game far outweighs the logical part of his brain which tells him to retire. 

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Today, Ibrahimovic is unable to play even a minute in Serie A, and instead spends his time making videos with Monza president Silvio Berlusconi.  Where once he was the first name on the star-studded guest lists of music festivals, he now must settle for a a role in adverts and commercials.

IBRA REFUSES TO ACCEPT THAT HE IS AGEING AC Milan owe Ibrahimovic a huge debt, and the charismatic forward played his part as the Rossoneri won the Scudetto in 2021-22, but he is not the same player he once was, and much like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Grey, refuses to believe that he is ageing. 

Supporting and cheering the team from the sidelines – while earning several million euros per year – can help to encourage and galvanise his team-mates, but it is an outdated privilege more given him based on gratitude than merit.