The research of this report revolves around the question: ‘due to what reasons do Dutch consumers buy a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, and how is this decision affected by strategies used by Sony and Microsoft?’ This research was conducted to find out how these two companies defend their positions in the …

Gender representation in video games is a current and sensitive topic in entertainment media. Gender studies in video games look at the difference between the portrayal of female and male characters and how these representations affect the target audience. Most video games tend to over-represent stereotypes …

The Russian travel and tourism sector shows a high potential to grow and become a main global player in the field of tourism. The tourism industry contributes about 5.9% to the total GDP of the country. In 2011, the sector’s total contribution was 3.4 million Rubles, or $106 billion dollars. (WTTC, 2012) …

Het proefschrift gaat in op de werkwijze, het belang en het gedrag van muziekuitgevers, de pioniers van de muziekindustrie. Sinds de uitvinding van de boekdrukkunst geven muziekuitgevers composities uit op bladmuziek of licenseren zij deze. Door het succes van de grammofoonplaat werden de uitgevers een …

In the last few years, the phenomenon of piracy has grown tremendously, with special regards towards movies. In the past, a great number of film industries and other companies made huge losses or even went bankrupt. With the increasing interconnectedness of people, different networks have been developed …

This chapter deals with a fascinating, and for some disturbing, phenomenon in the domain of the media and entertainment industries: unauthorised file sharing, in some cases also referred to as piracy. The latter term, however, was originally used to refer to the organised production of a counterfeit …

Industries involved in creating, producing, commercializing and distributing content find themselves facing major change because of digitization. These include the music and film sectors, and for over a decade now also the games sector. Digitization is changing the face of the content industry, with …

Game Mechanics is aimed at game design students and industry professionals who want to improve their understanding of how to design, build, and test the mechanics of a game. Game Mechanics will show you how to design, test, and tune the core mechanics of a game—any game, from a huge role-playing game …

In order for techniques from Model Driven Engineering to be accepted at large by the game industry, it is critical that the effectiveness and efficiency of these techniques are proven for game development. There is no lack of game design models, but there is no model that has surfaced as an industry …

Piracy and DRM are both forces that impact negatively as well as positively on the video game industry. Attempting to work these two forces together is difficult, if not impossible. Piracy cannot be stopped, and DRM cannot work its way around piracy in any way. This paper attempts to find a way to connect …