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In France, the video game sector can count on its 1,300 companies and other 650 development studios. It is the first cultural market in the world, ahead of the cinema. And French creation is very popular on the other side of the Atlantic.
Export to better develop. Alex Casassovici, founder and CEO of Azarus, has lived in San Francisco for six years and lives “the American dream“. This man from Versailles, a graduate of a major engineering school, explains that he “always wanted to work in ‘tech’. San Francisco is Mecca, it’s the perfect place to do that. We are surrounded by Google, Facebook, Twitch, all these companies that everyone knows the name“. In France, his first start-up in video games had not really taken off.
An industry that competes with cinema
In California, he has developed an interactive application for the community of players associated with the Twitch platform, thanks to investors whom he considers less cautious than in France. This American state is the cradle of behemoths in the sector such as the FIFA football franchise, or the Call of Duty war franchise. Worldwide, the video game industry generates nearly 160 billion euros in revenue, significantly more than the entire cinema industry. Quentin Duvauchelle, an engineer also expatriated to the United States, says he “met a lot of French engineers who were really very good“.