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Hundreds of millions of people around the world will be unboxing

video games and downloading new updates this week

adding billions of dollars to an industry that's already richer

than both the global box office and the music business combined.

has come at a cost to many  people who make them.

So what's happening to the workers behind the screen?

It's pretty incredible, really, just how massive this industry is

and how much it's evolved  over the decades.

This was Nimatron, the  very first game machine

Fast forward to the archade  games of the 70s

home gaming consoles, computer games in the 80s and 90s

online gaming at the  turn of the century

where full-time, professional  gamers fill stadiums

and earn millions, yes,  millions of dollars.

Let's wrap our heads  around some numbers.

In 2016, a third of the world's  population were video gaming

In 2017, more than 660 million people watched other people play video games

In 2018, the gaming industry  made at least 130 billion dollars.

And this is a business that's still growing by about 10 percent a year.

That's a pretty exciting industry for aspiring animators, developers

And staff salaries for developers are a lot higher than your average job.

In the US, a developer can earn  around $100,000 a year.

In India it's about 500,000 rupees or $6.000 a year

a lot higher than the average person's $2.000 yearly salary.

You know I am so glad I got  into game design

it's cool to be able to create the  kind of games that we play.

And 2019 was the year we found  out just how big a price

people pay to be part of the world's biggest entertainment industry.

Crunch culture is still a huge  issue in the industry.

It's when workers are put under enormous pressure to work

overtime in order to meet  game launch deadlines.

Before the studio Treyarch released “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4” last year

some testers said that “crunch  time” involved working

The gaming website Kotaku, says some of those guys

earned only 13 dollars an hour,   while Black Ops

made about 500 million dollars  in just a few days.

“This multiplayer mode is  super fun, dude.”

Some testers working on  Fortnite, another massive

and free online game, also reported 70-hour working weeks.

And what happens a lot is  that after a launch

and they have major concerns about the gaming work culture.

As many as a billion gamers are  thought to be women

and only 19% of the industry's  staff are female

Ever since the #MeToo movement, more and more women

are coming forward with allegations  of rape and harassment.

We spoke to one designer who  even made a game

about what it was like to be a  woman in the industry.

In 2014 a scandal known as 'Gamergate' consumed the gaming world.

It was a huge online culture war about a lot of things but at the heart of it

was the treatment of women in a male-dominated industry.

At the time, a developer  named Zoe Quinn

and others received rape  and death threats.

So much so that even the FBI  was called in to investigate.

People like feminist media  critic Anita Sarkeesian

came under pretty heavy fire  for posting this:

extremely toxic, patronising, and paternalistic attitudes about women.

Workers have been trying to  unionise to demand things

like better pay, and fair treatment  by gaming studios.

That conference triggered an online movement called #GameWorkersUnite

and it's now an international organisation

whose mission even has the backing of US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.

So is the industry  doing anything right?

Gaming studios, including Treyarch, which we spoke about earlier

say they are trying to reduce  the crunch culture.

The GameWorkersUnite movement has formally been accepted

into the Independent Workers  Union of Great Britain.

And some companies like Blizzard Entertainment and EA

also made Glassdoor's 100 best US companies to work for in 2018

For consumers and developers,  there's a lot to look forward to

and the hope is that as this industry grows and rakes in billions more

gaming workers will reap the  benefits of a business that

at the heart of it, is meant  to be about fun.