SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Have you been trying to land a PS5 or X-Box for Christmas? Good luck. That demand is part of an overall boom for the video game industry, whether you’re a player or a behind-the-scenes developer.
It’s a good time to be into gaming. Demand is growing for video game designers, developers, artists and programmers. Video game systems are in high demand for holiday gifts. Game playing also provides pandemic stress relief.
“It creates like an imaginative world that you could just immerse in and forget about all the troubles, and I think that that’s the fun in it,” said Shawn Liu, a game design student in San Francisco.
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The $26 billion dollar video game market keeps growing. California is home to 213 video game companies. That’s over four times more than second place New York…
