This report summarizes all we've written over the past two years about the pandemic, the Ukraine crisis, the cost-of-living crisis, and recessions, and adds a new section examining how regulation may come to fragment the market.
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Recessions, Pandemics, and Crises: The Wider Forces Shaping the Games Market
This report summarizes all we've written over the past two years about the pandemic, the Ukraine crisis, the cost-of-living crisis, and recessions, and adds a new section examining how regulation may come to fragment the market.
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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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