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By Nathan MEYER Alan WILSON, Capital Group
As a child growing up in Bettendorf, Iowa, Capital Group equity analyst Nathan Meyer had two passions: sports and video games. “There wasn’t much else to do in Bettendorf,” he says of the small, rural town about 170 miles west of Chicago.
Fast forward a few years and Meyer is now covering the video game industry as part of the broader media and entertainment landscape, tracking its rapid growth and the trends driving it. “Video games make up the fastest growing segment of the $1.5 trillion global media industry,” Meyer explains. “Worldwide gaming revenue rose by an estimated 11% last year and, in my view, that kind of healthy growth trajectory should continue as interactive gaming becomes a...
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