Inspired Media Entertainment
Inspired Media Entertainment, also known as Left Behind Games, was a Christian video game, Christian-themed gaming company most notable for its work on ''Left Behind: Eternal Forces''. The company closed their office, shut down operations, and laid off all of their employees at the end of 2011. History The company was started by Internet entrepreneur Troy Lyndon whose original goal was to make a video game series to tie into the popular ''Left Behind'' series. The game, ''Left Behind: Eternal Forces'' was released in 2006. It later evolved into a Christian gaming portal which incorporated not only the Left Behind series but hundreds of other Christian-themed games. According to founder Troy Lyndon, the goal was to produce an average of fifty games per year and set up a web link of at least three thousand churches. Controversy The company faced some criticism from social activists for its flagship Left Behind game, which was falsely accused of rewarding players for killing th ...
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Video Game Industry
The video game industry encompasses the development, marketing, and monetization of video games. The industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide. The video game industry has grown from niches to mainstream. , video games generated annually in global sales. In the US, it earned about in 2007, in 2008, and 2010, according to the ESA annual report. Research from Ampere Analysis indicated three points: the sector has consistently grown since at least 2015 and expanded 26% from 2019 to 2021, to a record ; the global games and services market is forecast to shrink 1.2% annually to in 2022; the industry is not recession-proof. The industry has influenced the advance of personal computers with sound cards, graphics cards and 3D graphic accelerators, CPUs, and co-processors like PhysX. Sound cards, for example, were originally developed for games and then improved for the music industry. Industry overview Size In 2017 in the United Stat ...
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