The UK spent as much as 280 million on online-based casual games, a new study suggests.
If accurate, the research reveals that 2.4 million Britons paid on average 117 each to play games through online game portals. For mobile games, the UK spent 170 million.
German gamers spend 440 million, and France spends 220 million on online game portals. The figures come as the freemium, browser and online game models continue to break apart traditional game business models.
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Pacific Standard Sound (PSS), the award-winning sound design and full service post production and sound company whose work spans some of entertainment's most iconic properties, today announced the launch of Pacific Standard Creative (PSC), a new division purpose-built to serve the evolving storytelling and production needs of video game development studios, advertising agencies, trailer houses, and independent productions who demand world-class sound without compromise. Pacific Standard Creative will be helmed by industry veteran Eric Marks, who brings more than a decade of audio and engineering leadership, as well as two years as the Vice President of the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE).
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