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Psychology and video games: background Video games have been notoriously popular for what seems like forever. But why? What is it about video games that makes them so compelling? The United States has the largest video game presence in the entire world, and in 2017, the video game industry earned an astounding $108.9 billion (Strickland 2017). So, just exactly what is it about video games that have allowed the industry to entirely blow up? There are various theories about this, but the most credible and sensible theory can be attributed to scientist Nick Yee. He proposes the three motivation components: achievement, social and immersion (Yee 2016). The achievement component reflects the gamer’s desire to advance to higher and higher levels

Various profiles define our identity. Among them, Joan Costa, UX researcher at Sekg, highlights the importance of user experience analytics in the video game industry, and, more specifically, how to implement it in game development processes. Background Joan grew up in Catalonia and has always been passionate about video games. It is when he turned 18 that he decided to specialize into user experience, after learning usability for the first time. He studied game design and development and later specialized in Game User Experience at the Catalan video game university ENTI. Joan analyzes all the data to create an accurate report of the games of our partners. He’s always researching and looking up for new trends, behaviors, mechanics in video

Competition has always been a major factor to playing videogames. Trying to finish the race first on Mario Kart Double Dash, or beating your friend on Street Fighter 2, we all have gone through that. A greater accessibility to videogames has highly favorised the rise of eSports and gaming competitions. Becoming a profesionnal player isn’t easy, but you definitely have all the means to do so: affordable games, a large audience, and game influencers you can inspire yourself of through Twitch. We came up with a ranking of top 10 eSport videogames according to three criteria: popularity, learning curve, and level of competition. Check out our selection! 1- Dota 2 It was impossible not to start this ranking with Dota

London is on the way!. We are delighted to confirm our participation to the #gamesUR conference in London, on 24th of November. Just a few weeks after the game connection in Paris, we are now heading to the most-famous English city. The conference aims to highlights various actors of the gaming industry, with a strong focus on playtesting and understanding players. A full-day conference of talks, workshops, and sharing, where we will have the opportunity to share along our colleagues from the gaming industry our vision of playtesting, and how emotions deeply impact the gaming experience. More than conferences it’s an opportunity to gather around one of the most important theme in videogames. Wanna meet us there? If you’re attending