BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20200610T220000Z DTEND:20200610T230000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:*Japan America Society\, Gaming & Digital Entertainment\, June 10 DESCRIPTION:Gaming\, Digital Entertainment\, and Cool Japan in the Era of COVID-19\n\n(Presented by the Japan-America Society)\n\n\n\n \nOver the last decades\, gaming has become a major component of the entertainment industry with an estimated 162 million American households owning a gaming console and an estimated market size of $1.9 billion in 2021. As countless people across the globe began to shelter-in-place in early 2020 due to COVID-19\, the gaming industry saw little slow down in its popularity\, with anticipated releases such as Animal Crossing: New Horizons from Nintendo\, selling 13.5 million copies worldwide and 50% of these sales being digital downloads. While digital downloads are not a new trend\, this is as first for a release from a major gaming company. How will the industry respond with the gravitation to digital downloads? Will game cartridges/disk become a thing of the past? And how will retailers respond to this changing market? Join speakers and experts from the gaming and digital entertainment industry as they discuss gaming\, digital entertainment and Cool Japan in the era of COVID-19.\n\n\n\n\n\nTopics to be discussed include:\n\n\n Current status of industry with so many people at home\n Social aspects of how digital content is keeping people connected\n How the trend will continue\, with digital purchases over physical game copies being sold\n Importance of digital entertainment for Japanese cultural diplomacy and soft power\n\n\nAbout the speakers:\nOliver J. H. Barder\n\nFreelance Journalist and Game Director\n\nProfessor Naomi Clark\n\nAssistant Arts Professor\, New York University Game Center\n\nFrank Hamlin\n\nExecutive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer\, GameStop\n\nDavid Najjab\n\nDirector of Institutional Partnerships\, Gearbox Entertainment\n\nModerator\n\nMatthew Edward Hawkins\n\nProducer & Curator\, Attract Mode\n\nEditor & Personality\, FORT90 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Gaming\, Digital Entertainment\, and Cool Japan in the Era of COVID-19
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Over the last decades\, gaming has become a major component of the entertainment industry with an estimated 162 million American households owning a gaming console and an estimated market size of $1.9 billion in 2021. \; As countless people across the globe began to shelter-in-place in early 2020 due to COVID-19\, the gaming industry saw little slow down in its popularity\, with anticipated releases such as \;Animal Crossing: New Horizons \;from Nintendo\, selling 13.5 million copies worldwide and 50% of these sales being digital downloads. While digital downloads are not a new trend\, this is as first for a release from a major gaming company. How will the industry respond with the gravitation to digital downloads? Will game cartridges/disk become a thing of the past? And how will retailers respond to this changing market? Join speakers and experts from the gaming and digital entertainment industry as they discuss gaming\, digital entertainment and Cool Japan in the era of COVID-19.

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Topics to be discussed include:

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About the speakers:\n

Oliver J. H. Barder
\nFreelance Journalist and Game Director

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Professor Naomi Clark
\nAssistant Arts Professor\, \;New York University Game Center

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Frank Hamlin
\nExecutive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer\, \;GameStop

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David Najjab
\nDirector of Institutional Partnerships\, \;Gearbox Entertainment

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Moderator
\nMatthew Edward Hawkins
\nProducer &\; Curator\, \;Attract Mode
\nEditor &\; Personality\, \;FORT90

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