Another Monday preview. This time a Ten Thunders Master who has the ONI characteristic. With only a few models so far with ONI this looks like her crew may be concentrating on this.
Rush of Magic gives some needed card draws, HtK will help her survive. Wp7 seems very good. Let’s hope she has some way of self-healing as her ability to allow other models to hurt her to do a (2) charge as a (1)AP action seems great.
There is no doubt that technological innovations have resulted in the development of incredible games that are high-functioning and grab massive market traction.
However, with the significant integration of modern technologies in games, the future of gaming has been worthwhile for investors, developers, and definitely gamers.
The tech innovations like AI in gaming are focused at creating smart – more interactive games for efficient user experiences. Many gamers are working on sharing their games on tik tok and taking them to their streams, they buy tiktok likes and views for more engagement and promote the streamings.
Talking in numbers, the annual revenue for tech gaming apps in 2021 was a 4.4% increase, making more than 180.3 billion USD.
The image below shows a clear segmentation of gaming revenues based on platforms and gaming categories for 2021.
As per research, the industry experienced slow yet consistent growth in 2021, as compared to 2020, with the lowest number of game app releases in the last ten years.
The primary reasons for this were drilled down to consistent lockdown and prevailing work-from-home culture.
Moving on, while we enter 2022 with partially similar yet improved conditions, there is expected to be a surge in the game development industry.
With consistent year-on-year growth, the game industry is expected to go beyond a whopping 200 million by 2022.
Out of which, mobile gaming would bag almost 50% of the entire revenue with a total of $95 billion. This would be followed by $61 billion and $39 billion from Console and PC gaming, respectively.
Wyrd Games have released a preview of yet another Emissary. This one will be added to my Molly and Seamus crews. May even throw in something to tie in with Yan Lo.
So this year with my reduced hobby time I will be concentrating on a few select projects. Malifaux will be a major focus but I also want to give some love and encouragement to lesser rulesets. This also allows me to give some love and attention to the models in my collection that have yet to feel the caress of a brush.
Complete the 2 Epic forces I started last year. I was close to completing my Eldar last year. When I say close I was almost at 3,000 points. This does not give a lot of wiggle room for tailoring my force so I will be adding to my force to get it to around 4,000 points. I will also attempt to get my Heresy Emperor’s Children up to the same level. I love the Heresy models and will be continuing painting purple this year. I will also be adding some titan support to both my loyalists and traitorous forces. This will also feed into playing lesser-played systems, below.
Paint 1,000 points of ‘Of Gods and Mortals’. Published by Osprey Games this is a nice simple system with lots of room for customisation of forces, creating your own pantheon of gods and take part in epic battles. For me I will be doing a dark celtic force using some old Rackham models from their Drune range. My force consists of 4 units, 2 characters and Cernunnos the Horn’d God. This force can also be segued into a force for Dragon Rampant, another Osprey Games system.
Organise and take part in various ‘Man Days’. With limited gaming time we have decided to have 1 day a month devoted to gaming with the guys. This is organised chaos where any system and games are welcome, turn up and play. Grab an opponent, organise before or on the day, or rope in anyone who wanders by to play a game. Our first Man Day will be 31st January and if successful will continue every month.
Play more. Simple. Whether it’s in tournaments or just a relaxing board game with my wife I want to play more this year.