Blood, Sweat, and Pixels The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made Jason Schreier HarperCollins 278 pages; $15.99 The global video games industry is worth over $101 billion in 2016 revenues and is growing at 8 per cent a year. That dwarfs the movie industry, which logged around $40 billion in 2016 box office receipts across the world. Of course, films have large alternate revenue streams, from home-DVDs to franchised products, spin-off books, in-story product placements, ads on TV re-runs, and so on. There is a huge literary corpus ...
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First Published: Wed, November 01 2017. 22:41 IST
