Playing video games has been popular for a while back now. Ever since it started, a whole world with games and categories has blown up, and left us with thousands – if not millions – of games that we can either download or buy. The industry keeps expanding, and is not showing any signs of stopping.

What is gaming?

Essentially, the word gaming stands for ”playing”. The saying actually started from the word ”gamen” which means fun. The word has evolved from that to gaming, which now is used all around the globe.

The game genres

When deciding between what you want to play, you have a lot of categories to choose from. Here is a few of them:

• Action games: An action game is a genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes a large variety of sub-genres, such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games.
• Adventure games: Adventure games focus on puzzle solving within a narrative framework, generally with few or no action elements. This genre is the one closest to a movie, since you follow a narrative. Although we must not forget, this often has a lot of gaming left in them, but are often not as energy-consuming as other genres.
• Puzzle games: As the name suggests, this genre is focus on puzzles. It’s easy to think that this also falls under adventure, but the key difference is that these games do not focus as much on the story. The most important part of the games is the puzzles and trying to understand how to get to the next level or stage.
• Strategy games: These often requires a lot of energy, since the entire idea is usually involved around planning ahead and decide on the next move. For comparison, this would in the normal world be compared to board games such as ticket to ride and risk.

Can you earn money playing video games?

Quick answer, yes, you can make money playing computer or console games. However, it’s a bit more complicated than that as there are many different ways to make money from games. The two most common methods involve either being very good at a game, or being very entertaining.

E-sports is one of the most popular methods today for doing just that. Here it is a matter of having the knowledge and being good at a popular game. To get here, it often takes many hours playing the game to become part of the elite. For those who earn money in this field, it usually means a fixed monthly salary from the team you play in. In addition to the fixed monthly salary, players receive a share of the prize money in the tournaments and competitions in which they participate. As you might understand just by reading this, that can lead to very high sums for those who are very good at the game.

Entertainment is another way that one can make money in the gaming world. This is also a very broad industry, which involves entertaining others by either recording, or live broadcasting, the playing of various games. This is then uploaded or broadcast sites such as Youtube or Twitch for everyone to see. 

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