“The future contributors to GDP are gaming now”: Global Esports Federation President & CEO challenges governments to recognise esports’ economic potential
Drawing on 25 years in the Olympic movement, Sir Paul J. Foster tells Jude Ower why governments and businesses should recognise esports' growing economic and social influence. Esports is becoming an increasingly important economic opportunity for governments and businesses, according to Sir Paul J. Foster, President & Chief Executive Officer of the Global Esports Federation. Speaking to Jude Ower on the latest episode of the Good Game Club podcast, released on 5 November and
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“Behind every single avatar is a human being”: Robert Steen tells The Good Game Club that his son Mats was not “wasting his life” behind a screen - he was creating one.
Robert Steen, father of Mats Steen - whose extraordinary life became the subject of the award-winning Netflix documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin – has called for parents and society to rethink the way they judge young people’s lives online, saying that gaming can provide friendship, identity, purpose and human connection that may be invisible to those outside it.
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