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Vietnam’s first game festival held in HCM City

Vietnam GameVerse 2023, the first of its kind for game lovers, kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on April 1.
Vietnam’s first game festival held in HCM City ảnh 1At the Vietnam Game Forum. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - Vietnam GameVerse 2023, the first of its kind for gamelovers, kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on April 1.

The two-day event aims at creating an environment for gameproducers and distributors to introduce games to the market, and opening upopportunities to connect domestic and foreign game enterprises and investors.

Within the framework of the event, a Vietnam Game Forum wasorganised, bringing together representatives of management agencies, leadingexperts in the field, game studios, and domestic and foreign game distributors. Participatingexperts shared experience and solutions towards creating a healthy environmentfor the Vietnamese game industry to have more opportunities to develop in thefuture, contributing to the digital economy in Vietnam.

According to Director of the Authority of Broadcasting,Television and Electronic Information Le Quang Tu Do, the Ministry ofInformation and Communications has set a plan that the game industry's revenuewill increase to 1 billion USD in the next five years from the current figure of 600million USD.

Vietnam currently has 28.4 million game players with 200 producersand distributors.

There are also Game Arena competitions, the awarding ceremony of the 2023 GameAwards, a game workshop, and a cosplay contest within the framework of thetwo-day event./.
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