Omdia has identified four key trends across PC and console gaming, highlighting how each opportunity will shape the market in 2022.
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Omdia has identified four key trends across PC and console gaming, highlighting how each opportunity will shape the market in 2022.
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Steven Bailey
Follow AnalystPrincipal Analyst, Video Games
Steve specializes in the online PC gaming market, virtual worlds, online consoles, as well as casual, browser-based, and social gaming.
He also provides consultancy services for major international clients and general games intelligence service work. Steve focuses on subscription and micro-transaction markets in the West as well as in emerging gaming sectors.
Prior to joining Omdia, Steve had an accomplished career in games journalism in a variety of magazine roles, including as editor of a TV-based games portal. Most notably, he lent his distinctive voice as a freelance writer to Edge, the influential games periodical. Over the six years of his career as a writer, Steve published several thousand published pages of video game content within the specialist press.
Steve attended Cardiff University in Wales, completing a PhD in mathematics with an emphasis on numerical analysis and multivariate calculus.
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Chenyu Cui
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Chenyu Cui joined Omdia in May 2012 as an analyst in the Games team and is based in Shanghai, China.
Chenyu's research responsibilities include coverage of all Asia Pacific markets with a specific focus on China, and include analysis of massively multiplayer online games, multiplayer online games, social network games and other online games markets. She holds a master’s degree in cultural and creative industries from King's College London, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Northeast Normal University, China, and Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom.
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