PM Germany invests 250 Million Euro into gaming
Picture Angela Merkel © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) PM Germany invests 250 Million Euro into gaming Gaming is booming. In 2020 the industry generated 179B US-Dollars. A year where everyone was at home and most sectors suffered losses, gaming came out as the winner and is set up to crush […]
Cow Level AG invests in FiPME to build bridges between gaming, esports and fashion
FiPME — the Estonian company First international Play Money Exchange has been acquired by Swiss Holding Cow Level AG. FiPME is the next generation exchange where gamers can meet to trade in-game goods and services together with digital art. Cow Level AG is a Swiss Holding ready to build bridges and invest in gaming, esports […]
FiPME Universe: What’s the Role of Gamers and Publishers in it?
In today’s Digital World, it is somewhat old news that there is a rising economic value for virtual or in-game goods and commodities. You know, a Fascinating sum of $26,500 was once paid in Cash for a piece of undeveloped land in an unpopulated New Suburb. Except, this property existed solely on the servers of […]
What Does the Epic-Apple Battle Mean for the Gaming World — and How Do We Want to Help?
The world of gaming, which is ripe with inconsistencies that have been plaguing both the buyers and the publishers, is undergoing a sea change. With the Epic-Apple battle about Fortnite still looming large, it becomes imperative for us to be aware of the implications that befall us. This is where the October Beta Launch from […]
FiPME partners with Gamerjibe for the world’s biggest virtual gaming conference
We live in a crazy world. Where everything shifts digital and everything is possible all in a sudden. Would you expect Formula 1 drivers to stream daily on twitch? McLaren Lando Norris does it. Ferraris LeClerc is killing it. The NBA goes digital and conferences do as well: At www.fipme.net we are building the future […]
The History and the Team Behind FiPME: Interview with Founders, Part 1
Lately, we’ve been writing a lot about the gaming industry and its prospects as well as about our own exchange and its role in the space. But what we haven’t done so far is tell you who we are! And since our supporters are from different parts of the world and we can’t meet each […]
The Ingame Items Market is Broken… But Here’s How it Can Be Fixed
In our previous article, we examined the problems you’d face if you want to buy or sell ingame items. And given how many problems there are, most likely you’d give up on trading and just keep playing, even at the cost of losing potential income. But we at FiPME believe those problems can — and […]
Why the Ingame Items Market is Broken: a Gamer’s and Trader’s Perspective on Trading Inefficiencies
Most of the ingame item shops are so time and cost inefficient that they impede the ingame goods from flowing to where they’re most needed and degrade the overall experience from gaming as a result. In this post, we’ll take a look at what’s wrong with the ingame items market and put you in the […]
What Types of Downloadable Ingame Content Are There and Why Do We Buy Them?
As explained in our previous article, games conquer us so easily because they let us fulfill our basic needs in a way that brings us more pleasure and less hurdle than when we fulfill the same needs in real life. And as the gaming world is shifting towards the F2P monetization model, game producers tend […]
What Makes Games So Addictive: the Psychology Behind Gaming
How do games win our hearts — and our pockets? We have all been stuck playing for hours without noticing the time passing by — but what makes games so addictive? In this article, we’ll explain the psychological mechanisms that games trigger to give us pleasure — and generate $140 bln in revenues for […]