What's Gaming? From a Hobby to Making Money

What is Gaming? 

That's a question which a lot of parents and people ask. Gaming can be defined in a lot of ways. However, most people agree to one definition. Gaming refers to playing electronic games, whether through consoles, computers, mobile phones, tablets or any other medium. Gaming is a term that suggests regular gameplay, possibly as a hobby or a medium of making money, as widely known as E-Sports. Although traditionally a solitary form of relaxation, online multiplayer video games have made gaming a popular group activity as well. For example, a lot of the current generation youth love to play games like Call of Duty (COD), counter-strike (CS), StarCraft (SC) and Defense of the Ancient (Dota). They play it on both consoles and computers. Furthermore, a lot of people started playing games like these as a hobby. 

From a Hobby to Making Money 

From a Hobby to Making Money

With time and practice a lot of players managed to get good with specific games and go on to make teams. These teams with the right attitude can become a world class teams. The teams are able to get sponsored from big companies like Razer, SteelSeries, LG, Zowie and more. Those sponsors are willing to offer salaries to those players just to have their names on the players’ cloths and equipment’s. From here came the term E-Sports (Electronic Sports) in which more sponsors and companies are arranging LAN events (local area network) for the players to test their skills in their games against players from all over the world. A good example for a LAN is DreamHack. 

What is DreamHack?

DreamHack is the world largest digital festival hosted in Jonkoping, Sweden. They hold the official world record for the largest LAN party in Guinness Book of Records. During 2009, DreamHack reached over 200,000 unique visitors with live activities around the world. They hold several festivals each year with activities ranging from Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) tournaments to expos for companies to showcase their products.

Example of the companies: 

• AMD
• Intel
• MSI
• ASUS
• Telia
• Blizzard 
• Valve 

The major festivals take place during 4 days, 24-7 LAN festival and they are always streamed on DreamHackTV and TwitchTV . Moreover, all of DreamHack festivals are alcohol and drug free on top of that, it's open to all ages.

DreamHack LAN Event