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Over the course of the pandemic, the gaming industry has been playing an important role in helping people stay connected and stay emotionally healthy. Now, gaming influencers are finding themselves on the front lines in the battle to fight mental and emotional distress caused by pandemic stress and isolation.

Since Facebook Gaming launched in 2018 the company has made major strides in creatively advancing its platform to serve gaming enthusiasts on all levels.

As game companies venture into the world of cloud gaming, Steam, which pioneered the concept, is showing every indication that it will continue to be an industry leader in the years to come.

The fourth wave of COVID-19 is still creating global havoc  financially, economically, educationally and in almost every other way. In Vegas however, the gaming industry is seeing profit and growth. Vegas’s July 2021 revenue was the strongest since the pandemic hit in March 2020.

In the 1940s and ‘50s sports betting, which had previously been a neighborhood bookie-type affair, was taken over by the mob. Anti-Mafia actions by the U.S. government wrestled the lucrative industry from the hands of the mob. Now, sports betting, both land-based and online casino sports wagering, is once again being consolidated in the hands of a few operators. Observers see both pros and cons in the change.

Gaming influencers have, for the most part, reacted with stunned shock to the California lawsuit which was filed last month against Activision Blizzard. The lawsuit alleges that female employees of Activision Blizzard, which publishes World of Warcraft, were subjected to a toxic environment of sexual discrimination and harassment in the workplace.

You don’t have to be a digital artist to design your own video game using the game creation software program. The platform gives anyone the tools needed to construct a digital space that’s goofy, beautiful, strange or creepy and above all, allows for the creation of a zone where players can peek into the corners of the creator’s mind.

As marketing agencies focus on esports audiences, the advertising dictum of “tell a story” has changed. Storytelling is still as important as ever when marketing to gaming communities but marketers have to adapt to a new kind of storytelling.

The Railroad Pass, Nevada’s oldest functioning casino, just celebrated 90 years of business. Railroad Pass Casino is located in Henderson, ironically just outside of Boulder City, the only incorporated town in Nevada where gambling is illegal. Today the Vegas casino online brings a whole new gambling adventure to Nevada where people can play both land-based and online casino games at their leisure whenever and from wherever they wish.

Officials in Florida wanted to see online casino gaming and sports betting come to the state. The Seminoles, Florida’s gaming tribe, wanted to make sure that they continue to control welcome bonus casino gaming in the state. A recent agreement may make it all happen.