Around 4,300 gaming professionals work in Serbia

In the sector of video games in Serbia, around 4,300 gaming professionals work, as shown by estimates of the Serbian Games Association (SGA), announced the Serbia e-sports association Zero Tenacity.

In a press release on the occasion of the Video Games Day, the association says that video games made in Serbia were bought or downloaded over 100 million times in 2023, whereas the income of the gaming industry amounted to over EUR 175 million last year.

The founder of that association, Dimitrije Malesevic, estimates that it is extremely important to have a wider discussion about video games, because that is still an undefined field and that there are plenty of prejudices in Serbia about that.

– We live in a society where this topic is discussed mostly in a negative context, and that’s not necessarily so, because the whole gaming industry and video games in and of themselves have numerous benefits that are rarely discussed – added Malesevic.

According to him, what’s more present in gaming now are the social aspect, the development of business skills, creative ideas, new employments, “but a special benefit is that, in that industry, you are truly heard.”

For years now, in Serbia, in e-sports tournaments, the most popular games are "League of Legends" (LoL) and "Counter Strike" (CS:GO, CS2), and LoL is the only game to have its official tournament – Esports Balkan League (EBL), where local players and teams qualify for the European tournament (EMEA Masters).

The International Olympic Committee will organize special e-Sports Olympics, which will be held every two years, between the summer and the winter Olympics, and the first games will be held in 2025 in Saudi Arabia.

Asocijacija Industrije Video Igara Srbije Beograd

Serbian Games Industry

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e sports association Zero Tenacity

Dimitrije Malešević

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