E-mission: Get Nevada into video games
The Nevada Film Office wants the Silver State to be the set of more video games.
Competitive video gaming, or e-sports, is an emerging industry from which many in Nevada hope to benefit.
The emerging global e-sports industry generated $352 million in revenue in 2015 and is slated to generate $1.1 billion in 2019, according to a 2016 report by Newzoo, a provider of market intelligence covering the global games, e-sports and mobile markets.
Eric Preiss, director of the Nevada Film Office, said he sees many opportunities for Las Vegas and Nevada when it comes to e-sports wagering, hosting e-sports competitions, broadcasting e-sports competitions and “for Nevada to be an essential part of the games themselves.”
Courting game developers
Game developers have previously incorporated Nevada into video games such as “High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition” and “Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas.”
But Preiss said those games mostly came on their own accord without any type of initiative by the Nevada Film Office.
“In those games in the past, they’ve reached out to Nevada, or they’ve used Nevada because of the unique locations that we have here,” Preiss said. “What we’re trying to do moving forward is market specifically to them to try to get them here.”
Preiss said his office has reached out to a few game publishers within the past year, including California-based Electronic Arts Inc. and New York City-based Rockstar Games Inc.
“We’re in the very beginning
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