Eliane Alhadeff

According to SuperData Research, Inc. latest report released May 20, the Global Games Market is estimated to bring in $74.2 billion this year.

At the early stages of the Serious Games movement, in many cases they were made available to users free of charge or distributed within the client organization. Serious Games used to lack the budgets of entertainment games, so producers usually did not develop their own game engines (which could cost upwards of $5 million and 3-5 years of time), but instead leased popular game engines for game play. 

Practice, the line of 3D, multiplayer Serious Games developed by Muzzy Lane Software for McGraw-Hill Education, which already includes Practice Operations, Practice Marketing, Government in Action, and Practice Spanish: Study Abroad, is about to get a new addition: Practice Medical Assisting.

A new market research report published by Meticulous Research states that the Global VPS (Virtual Patient Simulation) Market shall reach $508.7 million by the year 2019, at a CAGR of 21.1% over the period. The VPS Market Report is segmented by products, technology, geography and end-users.